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| Title | : | Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti #15) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 256 pages |
| Published | : | March 27th 2006 by Atlantic Monthly Press (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Crime |
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Donna Leon opens doors to the hidden Venice like no one else. With her latest novel, Through a Glass, Darkly, Leon takes us inside the secretive island of Murano, home of the world-famous glass factories. On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky from the Questura in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has been heard in the bars of Murano making violent threats about Ribetti. Brunetti's curiosity is piqued, and he finds himself drawn to Murano to investigate. Is De Cal the type of man to carry out his threats? Then one morning the body of De Cal's night watchman is found. Over long lunches, on secret boat rides, in quiet bars, and down narrow streets, Brunetti searches for the killer. Will he unravel the clues before the night watchman's death is allowed to be forgotten?A fascinating novel set in the intersection between tourism and native Venetian society, Through a Glass, Darkly is Donna Leon at her finest.
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| Original Title: | Through a Glass, Darkly |
| ISBN: | 0871139375 (ISBN13: 9780871139375) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #15 |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 5475 Users | 384 ReviewsWrite Up Epithetical Books Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Brunetti #15)
Since I returned from Venice, I have three of the Guido Brunetti books. They are not great. Very light. But, Venice is the real star of the books. It is so much fun reading how Guido hops on and off the same boats I just took in Venice. In this book, he talks about eating at the same restaurant by the Grand Canal near Rialto Bridge where we ate our last night in Venice. So, they are light and fun.Read 2013
I still can't decide if I like the Brunetti series, after reading about half of them. They are pretty constant in style and quality, and all of them have the same good points (interesting location, interesting and usually not pleasant characters) and less than good points (the intense hatred of everyone Sicilian or Sardinian, in every single book, every single time Brunetti talks to his rather racistically, by a northern Italian's eyes, boss, Patta, and every time there is ever anyone from
Donna Leon has essentially given up on writing mysteries and/or police procedural books in favor of writing whatever's on her mind that day. This book is not a mystery - Brunetti wanders around for the first half of the book wasting police time even more egregiously than usual, until someone he's talking to is conveniently murdered - and it ends in the least satisfying way possible. As I've said before on far too many occasions, I luckily do not read the Brunetti books for their mysteries, but
It's been a while since I've read something that gave me the opportunity to write a truly scathing review here. So if nothing else, I guess I should thank Donna Leon for writing this horribly ill-conceived addition to the Guido Brunetti series, and thereby giving me ample material to rake this book over the coals. This is my third Leon mystery, which I guess is a good thing: if this were the first Brunetti story I'd read, it would be enough to convince me that I should never pick up anything
I have now read six of these mysteries. They are among the finest mystery novels I have ever read, sparkling with intelligence as well as a sensitive understanding of human nature and a thoroughly dark view of politics and government. Commissario Brunetti stands out as a sterling example of one man retaining his humanity amidst the chaos.
Commissario Brunettis disillusion with the Venetian bureaucracy and political environment continues to grow in this 15th of Donna Leons series. As always, I appreciated expanding my knowledge of the culture and environment of Venice as much as the murder mystery. In this one, the continual environmental challenge of trying to keep the Laguna clean is core to the mystery itself as two glass factories on Murano seem to be trying to bypass decades old environmental laws guiding sludge and chemicals
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