The Story of the Nose

by Camilleri, Andrea; Sartarelli, Stephen; Celija, Maja; Gogol, Nicolai

• ISBN13: 9781782690177
• ISBN10: 1782690174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-01
• Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books

Summary

"Sir, now the matter is perfectly clear. You... you are my nose!"

The Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning to discover that his nose has disappeared. Unbeknownst to him, it has mysteriously found its way into a loaf of bread on the barber Yokovlevich's breakfast table. The barber attempts to dispose of it, but when Kovalyov steps out onto the St Petersburg streets, he finds his nose, now the size of a human, wearing a gold-embroidered uniform and travelling around in a carriage ...


Dave Eggers says, of the series: "I couldn't be prouder to be a part of it. Ever since Alessandro conceived this idea I thought it was brilliant. The editions that they've complied have been lushly illustrated and elegantly designed."

Author Biography

Andrea Camilleri (born in Sicily in 1925) is a best-selling and prize-winning Italian theatre and television director and author, perhaps most famous for his Inspector Montalbano series of crime novels. Camilleri has won numerous awards, and his work has been translated into many languages, including French, German and Japanese.

Translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli

Maja Celija was born in Slovenia in 1977. She attended primary school during Tito's Yugoslavia, and secondary school during Tudman's Croatia. She graduated from the European Institute of Design in Milan, and since then her illustrations have travelled all over the world. She now lives in Pesaro, but the forest is her second home: Maja adores the animals and the mushrooms.