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Indlæser... A Grain of Truth (2011)af Zygmunt Miłoszewski
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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. Translated from Polish, the second in a trilogy starring a prosecutor/investigator. This man is a mess of personal problems and anti-social behavior, but an excellent, intuitive investigator. A decent enough mystery though the Polish names/places sometimes confused me and made it hard to follow some of the lesser characters. ( ) Muy, muy bueno: el caso, los personajes, el desarrollo de la trama, el protagonista. Muy bien el equilibrio entre la trama policiaca y la vida cotidiana del fiscal investigador. El enlace con la Historia Contemporánea al comienzo de cada capítulo te sitúa en el mundo y en la sociedad de la pequeña provincia polaca con toda naturalidad y te acota el espacio geográfico-temporal de manera eficaz. Me gusta mucho este autor y el protagonista cada vez más humanizado que ha elegido. Espero que traduzcan lo antes posible el último título. Nicely written crime fiction piece taking place in a beautiful sleepy Polish town of Sandomierz. Easy to read with interesting characters, good dialogue and gripping story - altogether found it quite hard to put down. This was my first time reading Miloszewski and already planning to put my hands on more of his books. As a bonus, the bits about the town of Sandomierz and its fascinating history made me want to visit the place one day. Great read, highly recommended. This week I took my first dip into Polish crime fiction with Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski. In this country it seems that there is a different division of labour to the British and Nordic jurisdictions where most of my previous "procedural" reading has been based. Instead of being a Detective Chief Inspector, Teodor Szacki is a Prosecutor, which seems to involve working with the police as an investigator but also leading the case for the prosecution in court. The names present a few challenges. I've met quite a few Poles over the years but there are still combinations and even individual letters that are unfamiliar to me. Fortunately I wasn't reading out loud but there were one or two points when I had to apply extra thought to which character was involved in a scene. More irritating was the frequent repetition of the "grain of truth" phrase from the title. I wonder if this is a Polish idiom that loses something in translation? Aside from that though, and the amount of time Prosecutor Szacki spends in bed with various women, it is a deftly plotted book. The final solution fits together elegantly although so did the one before that before you realised that Milozewski had woven his strands in an intricate illusion. I will definitely seize on the opportunity to revisit this author. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murdered, her body drained of blood. The killing bears the hallmarks of legendary Jewish ritual slaughter, prompting a wave of anti-Semitic paranoia in the town, where everyone knows everyone. The murdered woman's husband is bereft, but when Szacki discovers that she had a lover, the husband becomes the prime suspect. Before there's time to arrest him, he is found murdered in similar circumstances. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of Polish-Jewish relations and something that happened more than sixty years earlier. No library descriptions found. |
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