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Indlæser... Country of the Heart (1987)af Kay Nolte Smith
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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She stepped into the store and gazed around with a smile of content. Books. By the yard, the acre, the mile. Stacked in piles and packed in bursting rows, spilling out as if propelled by the energy of their words. And everywhere the smell: must and wood and aging paper and, somehow, a hint of spice. It exhilarated her to plunge into the past, as long as it wasn't her own.
She moved past the table of shiny new review copies, toward the remainders and secondhand books. The shelves were separated by such narrow aisles that she had to walk between them crablike and angle her head to read the spines, so that the long braid of her hair slid to one side.
The book store is never named, but I had to smile. For me it was such a vivid conjuration of one of the wonders of New York City, the Strand Bookstore, and that opening sucked me right in. And it wasn't long before I was feeling a renewed affection for these characters, in particular the protagonist depicted in that opening, Hedy Lucas. Hedy and her mother defected to the United States from the Soviet Union, leaving their father behind. Now, almost twenty years later, her father, a great living composer, is being allowed to travel abroad again to Finland. Hedy travels there to meet her father again and to try to learn why he never joined them in their escape.
I won't claim this is deathless literature or even at the top of the mystery genre in the tradition of a Dorothy Sayers or Agatha Christie. But it is definitely a well-written, at times insightful, and an entertaining mystery with a twist that isn't just clever but has emotional impact--and I find I can't part with this book in the name of a freed up space after all. ( )