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Hardcover | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 3.78 | 4884 Users | 476 Reviews
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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) |
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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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| 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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Ratings: 3.78 From 4884 Users | 476 ReviewsWrite Up Regarding Books The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Brunetti #17)
While I enjoyed the sort of insider view into Venice, the story overall seemed sort of mediocre and unexciting. I guess I was jsut expecting something more action-filled rather than about character and people. A lot of the book seems to focus on ethnic differences between the Venetians and the Roma (the term "Gypsy" being considered derogatory) and the conflcits between two very different cultural systems, one heavily influenced by poverty while the other is rather well to do but does not comeThis book opens with the burial of Brunetti's mother whose physical death comes well after the "death" of her worsening Alzheimer's. A priest who says prayers over her grave comes to Brunetti for help in exposing a scam...but this turns out not to be the main thrust of the book. The Rom, or the nomadic gypsies of Europe, take center stage when Brunetti fishes an eleven-year-old Rom girl out of a Venetian canal. She has drowned not too far from where she was caught (with her brother and sister)
I do so enjoy spending time with Guido Brunetti. I can't say that either of the "mysteries" in this book were really pursued as "mysteries" in terms of clues and red herrings and other standard mystery novel fare, and neither were exactly solved. But it was a lovely period of time spent with Brunetti doing police work and trying to understand the world, while enjoying all that is Venice despite all that is the nation of Italy. The worries of bureaucracy and government employment are familiar to
As I've mentioned before in my earlier reviews of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti books, I'm still wondering about the appeal of these books to a number of my female friends, most notably those in my wife's book group. Most of these books don't have much going on, Brunetti eats, drinks (coffee, wine, grappa, whatever), talks to his wife and daughter (less it seems to his son), spars silently with his sinecured boss, asks his boss's secretary to hack into computer systems for information. He
The Girl of His Dreams, Donna Leon's seventeenth Commissario Brunetti novel but a bit disappointing. The first half of the novel led to some story about Catholic church which had no relevance in second half. I could not connect to story and plot.
This is the 17th book in Donna Leons series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Once again Brunetti is faced with questions of right and wrong, and what the law in Venice can do to help solve crime. The books in this series are always a delight to read. Donna Leon has a wonderful way of bringing the reader into the Venetian life. Even though I have never been to Venice, I by now feel quite familiar with the city, thanks to Leon, who gives wonderful descriptions of the city without going on and
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