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| Original Title: | The Girl of His Dreams |
| ISBN: | 0871139804 (ISBN13: 9780871139801) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #17 |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
Donna Leon
Hardcover | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 3.78 | 4884 Users | 476 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Brunetti #17) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 276 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2008 by Atlantic Monthly Press (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Crime |
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One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot - together he and Vianello lift a dead girl from the water.
But, inconceivably, no one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity, her family, and for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children - be they innocent or guilty.
From the canals and palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland, Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.
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Bravo, Donna Leon, for writing a mystery novel that delves into the underpinnings of crime and society. Italy, like all western European nations, is struggling with a huge influx of immigrants from other cultures. Now Europe must struggle with the problems that have been ongoing in the US for a couple of centuries. As I've said in other Leon reviews, Guido Brunetti is perhaps the most humanistic of all series detectives published today. In this outing, he must cope with the drowning of a "Rom"What good is it to think good and proper thoughts, to have sympathy for the under dog, if you don't do anything about a bad situation? MS Leon brings anti-clericalism right up front, including the reason Brunetti walked away from confession at age twelve and never returned. We meet Padre Antonin who appears to have been used by his superiors in Africa to further their own careers. He will never become a prelate but you'll always be able to count on him to do something about problems. The
Came across this on my shelf and realized I had started reading it.I wasn't that far in and so when they spoke of Father Antonin having spoken at Brunetti's mother's funeral, I thought it was a long time ago, instead of at the beginning of the book. Oh, well, such are the hazards of putting a book down for several years for no apparent reason.And the priest comes to see Brunetti at work to ask for help. There's apparently a con man taking people's money under the aegis of religion. This
In each of her books featuring Venetian detective Guido Brunetti, Leon tackles a current and relevant issue, moral, religious, or political, in the context of the case before him. Always in her books, Brunetti, a highly intelligent, ethical, honest policeman is besieged by forces beyond his control to solve the case in a way that is most expedient or convenient for his superiors, his political bosses, the moneyed interests, and/or the church. A man who reads Greek philosophy to relax, Brunetti
Donna Leon is like many lapsed Catholics, of which I am one, who cannot quite shake the indelible marks that Catholic education, Catholic rituals (some in Latin) for every event and season of the year, sacred music, and the virtues (compassion, forgiveness, social justice, respect for elders, the nuns, and immigrants). Like many lapsed Catholics, who consider why their affinity or affiliation to the Church has diminished, I persistently try to explain lost faith to myself and to others.I only
Something has happened to Donna Leon, at least insofar as Paula Brunetti is Leon's proxy. The hard-edges are off, the passionate contempt for the church has been replaced by something more like benign indifference. And Vianello, normally very broad-minded, has become a bit of a bigot towards Italy's recent immigrants. He's ashamed of his bigotry, but it is there and can't be retracted.Maybe the level of crime caused by the eastern European immigrants has finally gotten to Leon. I'm sure there's
The blurb on the back cover was the most enjoyable part of this book. This book was tedious. It took 100 pages before anything happened and the pace of the story only marginally increased from that point. The lead character, Commissario Guido Brunetti, was convincingly moved by the child victim but he didn't really do much to solve the crime. There was an extraordinary amount of time spent walking around the streets of Venice and stopping for coffee, or something stronger if it was after
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