Many ran, making the book one of the most read in bookstores and online stores, because in Caminito Maurizio De Giovanni reveals a lot about the future fate of Commissioner Ricciardi and the diverse humanity that revolves around him. And it does so by taking us all back to 1939, on the eve of World War II.
Ricciardi It’s still the same but it’s been 5 years. As it says on the back: “Five years can change a world. One life, many lives.” There at Naples in April all or almost all of the characters we wrote in the 12 novels we loved Maurice DeGiovanni or in the first TV season. And let’s go back to this cop’s life with him special gift — or “curse,” as he calls it — to catch the last words someone spoke before they die, simply by walking past the spot where they die.
Left to right: the cover of Caminito, the latest novel by Maurizio De Giovanni. An image from the TV series “Il Commissario Ricciardi” from the Ansa archive
April 1939: De Giovanni returns to Naples after Commissioner Ricciardi
A great return that is both awaited by those – many – who have followed it first season of the TV series on RaiUno that of the novels written by Maurice DeGiovanni to the cases of Commissioner Ricciardi. The Crying of the Dawn – the last book by the Neapolitan writer – will be part of the new episodes that will be broadcast from February 27 on the flagship state television. But the latest litter, which appeared at the end of last year, reveals a lot about the fate of the protagonist, whom he skilfully lends his face to Pillow Linen. we are inApril of 1939 with Italy on the brink of disaster and we are of course a Naples, because it’s hard to imagine that such a story and characters could be born and lived anywhere else. You are passed 5 years and we find Ricciardi who has found the courage to explain himself Enrikabut the two could not enjoy their beautiful little girl Marthabecause his wife died.
Caminito: the new case
The inspector is lost in doubt about the little girl: will she be as normal as her mother, or has she inherited hers? gift-damn? It’s time to find out, and the Commissioner wants it to happen differently than him. In the middle of April Ricciardi e mayonnaise deal with the case of two brutally murdered young lovers. the doctor fashion He considers it a political crime: there are quite a few people who disappeared at the time, were sent into internal exile or were killed by the fascist gangs. Ricciardi is afraid to leave his little girl before he realizes what she looks like. They won’t discover the truth until they show us what Naples was like under fascism. Like all the characters born from the pen of Maurizio De Giovanni lived then: with a great foray into the family life of the Maiones and the return of Bambinella.
The writer Maurizio De Giovanni during the presentation of the comic adventures of “Il commissario Ricciardi”, the character of the writer designed by Daniele Bigliardo for the Bonelli publishing house, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, April 7, 2017.@ANSA – CIRO FUSCO
Awaiting the new installments of Il Commissario Ricciardi, as well as a new novel by the author of I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone and Mina Settembre, rush to the bookstore to enjoy this magnificent cross-section of the life of Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi, between which this time moves the notes of a painful and beautiful tango from which it takes its title: Caminito.
“You, Señora, still have hope. That’s why you can’t sing this song. At least not the way it should be sung. Your pain has a dream in it, of return and happiness: not that of poor Gabino. And Livia Lucani didn’t know what to say anymore”.