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Indlæser... Rundt om bøjen (2003)af Andrea Camilleri
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Due to the hectic holiday season, I decided to listen to this mystery even though I own the paperback. This way I could 'read' it while wrapping gifts, baking cookies etc. Grover Gardner is becoming one of my favorite narrators & he didn't disappoint in this Italian mystery. However, I did miss the endnotes (footnotes?) that the translator Stephen Sartarelli includes in the print copy. In fact, I checked in regularly with my paperback to read them! So while this is a successful audiobook, I think that this is a series I will mostly read in print. Casi al límite del agotamiento, mientras nada en el mar con la furia de quien quiere liberarse de una noche de pensamientos obsesivos, el comisario Salvo Montalbano se topa, literalmente, con la investigación más difícil de cuantas ha llevado a cabo hasta la fecha. En efecto, su hallazgo de un cadáver medio descompuesto, con unos profundos cortes en las muñecas y los tobillos, desencadenará una serie de reacciones que harán que se sienta más aislado y superado por las circunstancias que nunca. La realidad política, la actitud de la policía hacia los inmigrantes, todo conspira contra su natural deseo de que se haga justicia con el cadáver anónimo, destinado si no, como tantos casos de clandestinos ahogados, a ser archivado sin más trámite y a perderse en un anonimato que, de un modo extrañamente macabro, parece armonizar con la acuciante sensación de soledad que padece Montalbano. Sin embargo, la iniquidad sacude por fin al comisario, borra del mapa cualquier intención de abandonar su profesión y lo empuja hacia el arriesgado camino de una doble investigación sobre unos delitos aparentemente independientes y sólo equiparables por la infame violencia que se adivina. Dos misterios que, a pesar de estar destinados a confluir en un punto determinado, se niegan a hacerlo, conformando un enigma inquietante que desbarata una y otra vez el rompecabezas. Al final del camino, la verdad que aguarda a Montalbano es de esas cuyo horror inconmensurable transforma para siempre a una persona, incluso a alguien tan curtido en mil batallas como Salvo Montalbano. En esta última novela de su famoso personaje, Andrea Camilleri ha dejado traslucir, con la profunda dimensión humana que lo caracteriza, su enfado con un mundo que le disgusta, pero también con quienes se acomodan, entre falsamente resignados y ocultamente satisfechos, a una realidad que casi siempre está sujeta a la voluntad del hombre. Out for a swim, Inspector Montalbano literally bumps into a corpse. Then, Montalbano learns that a child he helped return to his mother is run down by a car. Both deaths are linked to a ring of human traffickers, which he brings to justice, all while agonizing over whether he should resign from the police for emotional and reputational reasons. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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While swimming along the Sicilian shore, Inspector Montalbano discovers a corpse. His pursuit of the cause of death intersects with the inquiry into a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a young boy who may have been victimized by human traffickers. The buying and selling of immigrant children for slave labor, sex, and as a source of illegal organ transplants, is part of the evil underside of the opening of Europe's borders. That, combined with frustration with his department's repressive handling of security for the G8 Summit in Genoa and the corruption among his superiors and the politicians behind them, makes setting anything right seem like an exercise in futility. Montalbano alternates between despair and steely resolve. When he realizes that he may have inadvertently aided the boy's victimizers, his internal turmoil intensifies.--Container. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet.
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Although I love Simenon's Maigret books, I have to admit that Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano stories are better. The characters and plots are more real and I'm far more likely to laugh and to cry. I don't care for suspense and when the time for that comes (Simenon, thankfully, didn't have need for suspense in his Maigret stories -- they work on plot, characters, but not as deeply portrayed as with Camilleri, and the enviornment in which they are set), I just skim through until we get back to what I like, the plot and the characters (and the descriptions of what Montalbano likes to eat!). ( )