Earthly Remains: 26 - Rilegato

Leon, Donna

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ISBN 10: 0802126472 ISBN 13: 9780802126474

Casa editrice: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Donna Leon’s bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider’s portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral part of this beloved series. But so are the suffocating corruption, the never-ending influx of tourists, and crimes big and small. Through it all, Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti has been an enduring figure. A good man who loves his family and his city, Brunetti is relentless in his pursuit of truth and some measure of justice.

In Earthly Remains, the twenty-sixth novel in this series, Brunetti’s endurance is tested more than ever before. During an interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the fallout, he realizes that he needs a break, needs to get away from the stifling problems of his work.

When Brunetti is granted leave from the Questura, his wife, Paola, suggests he stay at the villa of a relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan until Davide Casati, the caretaker of the house on Sant’Erasmo, goes missing following a sudden storm. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his leave of absence and understand what happened to the man who had become his friend.

Earthly Remains is quintessential Donna Leon, a powerful addition to this celebrated series.

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Praise for Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries:

Leon is the ideal author for people who vaguely long for a good mystery’ . . . That Leon is also a brilliant writer should only add to the consistently comforting appeal of her Venetian procedurals featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, an immensely likable police detective who takes every murder to heart.” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive, and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon . . . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” Washington Post

The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.” Wall Street Journal

[Leon] uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for rips about Italian life, sexual styles and best of all the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface.” Chicago Tribune

Hers is an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event.” New Yorker

For those who know Venice, or want to, Brunetti is a well-versed escort to the nooks, crannies, moods, and idiosyncrasies of what residents call La Serenissima, the Serene One . . . Richly atmospheric, [Leon] introduces you to the Venice insiders know.” USA Today

Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . Leon’s ability to capture the social scene and internal politics [of Venice] is first-rate.” Baltimore Sun

Terrific at providing, through its weary but engaging protagonist, a strong sense of the moral quandaries inherent in Italian society and culture.” San Francisco Chronicle

Brunetti is one of the most attractive policemen in crime fiction today.” Philadelphia Inquirer

As always, Brunetti is highly attuned to (and sympathetic toward) the failings of the humans around him.” Seattle Times

Fabulous.” Kansas City Star

Leon’s writing trembles with true feeling.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn’t always end in an arrest or a trial.” Publishers Weekly

[Brunetti] is a superb police detective calm, deliberate, and insightful as he investigates with a reflective thoroughness.” Library Journal

The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leon’s long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his role as an Everyman . . . [his life is] not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life.” Booklist

I never turn down a Brunetti mystery . . . It is amazingly easy to jump on board with any particular book and work your way backward or forward. Leon is masterful at filling in the blanks of the past for newbies while keeping the current story going . . . [She] continues to pull back the veil on one of the world’s most exotic cities, revealing aspects of it that few people have seen and that most do not even know exist.” Bookreporter

One of the most popular crime series worldwide . . . Leon’s vivid evocation of the city of Venice is, of course, part of the appeal . . . While the Brunetti books, with their abundance of local color and gastronomic treats, appeal to the fans of the traditional mystery, Leon has something darker and deeper in mind.” Life Sentence

Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has simply kept it up.” Guardian (UK)

Comfort reading of the highest order.” Times Literary Supplement (UK)

Donna Leon has established Commissario Guido Brunetti as one of the most engaging of fictional detectives.” Sunday Times (UK)

Donna Leon’s novels have become successively more subtle, more complex and perhaps more serious, without ever losing their compelling power as narratives.” London Evening Standard

One of Venice’s greatest contemporary chroniclers . . . Leon has her finger on the pulse.” Daily Mirror (UK)

Leon’s books are an antidote to the dark, unsettling landscape of so much contemporary crime fiction.” Times (UK)

Operatic brilliance . . . Donna Leon appears to have the knack of keeping her Venice-set Brunetti books as fresh as paint” Independent (UK)
These Leon novels are a pensive pleasure, refined in technique and humane in the vision they express.” Sydney Morning Herald

Donna Leon has firmly taken her place in the pantheon of mystery writers.” ABC (Madrid)

With Commissario Brunetti, Donna Leon has created a character that is charismatic, intelligent, and human.” Die Welt (Berlin)

Leon does not hesitate to take an acid look at Italian society . . . But the world of this cultured Commissioner, a gourmand and connoisseur of human nature, is not sad however, quite the contrary. In the footsteps of Brunetti, endowed with a ruthless humor and a healthy appetite, Leon’s readers discover Venice better than with a guide book.” Le Monde (Paris)

L'autore:

Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. The winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland.

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• Editore: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0802126472
• ISBN 13: 9780802126474
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308