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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
I add my vote to Inspector Montalbano, and the TV series is great too. The books are actually written in Sicilian, with some Italian, and the comic relief character speaks a sort of bastard Sicilio-Italian jargon, fondly imagining he's speaking proper Italian, a type well recognised in Sicily. The translation (by a Sicilian speaker) does extremely well in my opinion. (I'm pleased to see a new short TV series of Montalbano has been made and is about to start here in Australia, subtitled of course.)
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A constant complaint of a friend of mine, a Sicilian who runs a restaurant in the village where I live, is that the characters in the TV series don't actually speak Sicilian, but "standard" Italian.