<b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series brings us back to Vigà ta in the nineteenth century for a rip-roaring comic novel.</b><br><br>1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigà ta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigà ta, a regional representative from the Italian government to oversee the town. But the rowdy and unruly Sicilians don't care much for this rather pompous mainlander nor the mediocre opera he's hell-bent on producing in their new municipal theater. <i>The Brewer of Preston</i>, it's called, and the Vigà tese are revving up to wreak havoc on the performance's opening night.
