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Indlæser... The Small Boat of Great Sorrowsaf Dan Fesperman
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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. Dan Fesperman's The Small Boat of Great Sorrows intertwines the horrors of World War II and the Bosnian war in this suspenseful novel of treachery in wartime and its aftermath. Vlado Petric is an expatriate Bosnian cop, working on an excavation project in Berlin to support his wife and child. Out of nowhere, Petric is approached by an American investigator for the War Crimes Tribunal with a short-term job and a long-term opportunity: help us arrest a Serb war criminal from World War II, which will also help us arrest a Serb war criminal from the Bosnian war. In return, the way will be paved for Petric to return to Bosnia and his law enforcement career. Petric, he is told by the American, is the only one who make this justice possible. Intrigued, and drawn by the possibility of returning his homesick wife to Bosnia, Petric accepts the job. To his surprise and shock, Petric is confronted by ghosts of his family's past, international political intrigue, secrets, lies, and missing gold. Fesperman, whose novels Layover in Dubai and The Arms Maker of Berlin I enjoyed, has done it again. The characters, both major and minor, are well drawn; the physical settings are evocative; and the plot is involving. Fesperman has demonstrated that the arc of terror can cross generations with extraordinary ease, that even the best governments can employ people of dubious morality, and that dedicated individuals willing to take risks can make critical differences. Vlado Petric, un ex policía en el Sarajevo desgarrado por la guerra, tiene que dejar su tierra para reunirse con su esposa y su hija en Alemania, donde se gana modestamente el sustento como trabajador de la construcción en las obras del nuevo Berlín. Una tarde, al volver a casa después de la jornada laboral, un enigmático investigador estadounidense le está esperando en el pequeño apartamento familiar. El investigador, Calvin Pine, enviado por el Tribunal Internacional para Crímenes de Guerra en la ex Yugoslavia, solicita a Petric que viaje a La Haya. Petric acepta sin titubear cuando Pine le dice que están siguiendo a un pez gordo: uno de los hombres a los que consideran responsables de la terrible matanza de Srebrenica. Lo que Petric no sabe es que lo están utilizando como cebo para descubrir a un asesino de la generación anterior, un hombre cuyas actividades en la Segunda Guerra Mundial hacen que los asesinos de ésta parezcan aficionados. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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A former detective leaves his beloved Balkan home to join his wife and daughter in Germany. When asked to return to Croatia to help the International War Crimes Tribunal bring the killers of Srebrenica to justice he accepts but his handlers don't tell him the real reason. He is to be used as bait for a murkier purpose. No library descriptions found. |
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Lo que Petric no sabe es que lo están utilizando como cebo para descubrir a un asesino de la generación anterior, un hombre cuyas actividades en la Segunda Guerra Mundial hacen que los asesinos de ésta parezcan aficionados.