Xmmm wrote:
A ciascuno il suo by Leonardo Sciascia.
An amateur sleuth investigates two murders in Sicily. But this is not a conventional detective novel. I'll say no more, but I really enjoyed it. Leonardo Sciascia is one of the easier big name Italian authors. Suitable for B2 or above. Also available as a great film on youtube.
Thanks Xmmm for the recommendation - this looks quite interesting. I very briefly checked out the youtube film - the pacing of the dialogue seems good (from the little I scanned near the beginning) from a learner's perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nbDEHyki8
Watching the scene near the beginning where someone gets and is shown reading an anonymous threatening letter was a bit of an education for me in how accurate closed captioning subtitles might be: the text of the letter is shown in the film: Questa lettera è la tua condanna a morte per quello che hai fatto morirai ("This letter is your death sentence for what you did you will die") but it comes out in the subtitles to the full-length film as: Questa lettera la tua condanna a morte e quello che hai fatto moriraii - according to the Google, this comes out as: "This letter your death sentence and what you did will die."
Close enough to figure things out, and loads better than the subtitling on a short clip of that scene also on youtube: "Queste lettere le tue condal mar morto e' hai quello che fatto ..." [and then it just ends, without captioning "morirai"]). According to Google Translate, this comes out as "These letters your dead sea condom and you have what you did" - which sounds really wrong somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGLF8jAJlOU