Donna Leon

Trace Elements

A Comissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

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Produktbeschreibung

A woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon's haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 142mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780802148681
• ISBN-10: 0802148689
• Artikelnr.: 59261050

Autorenporträt

Donna Leon, born in New Jersey in 1942, has worked as a travel guide in Rome and as a copywriter in London. She taught literature in universities in Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia. Commissario Brunetti made her books world-famous. Donna Leon lived in Italy for many years, and although she now lives in Switzerland, she often visits Venice.

© Regine Mosimann, Diogenes Verlag

Rezensionen

Donna Leon's appreciation of her adopted city's sublime yet fragile magnificence is as fresh (and invigorating) today as it was when Death at La Fenice was published in 1992. However, her anger at the damage caused by tourism and pollution has grown stronger over the years ... Should anyone still doubt that Leon is a superb novelist, let them consider the scene in which Guido gently questions a woman during the last few minutes of her life. You can feel the tension, fear, horror - and wonder. The Times