Donna Leon: A Refiner's Fire, Kartoniert / Broschiert
A Refiner's Fire
- Publisher:
- Random House UK Ltd, 07/2024
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529154375
- Item number:
- 11682356
- Volume:
- 274 Pages
- Weight:
- 700 g
- Format:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 18.7.2024
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of A Refiner's Fire |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 9.18* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 13.83* |
Blurb
Commissario Guido Brunetti returns with a gripping and powerful case about the murkiness of power and a test of loyalties
When two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's campi , the son of a local hero is implicated. But when Commissario Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy foreigner to vet this man, Monforte, for a job, he discovers that Monforte might not be such a hero after all.
This seeming contradiction, and a brutal attack on one of Brunetti's colleagues by a possible gang member, concentrate Brunetti's attentions. Soon, he discovers the sordid hypocrisy surrounding Monforte's past, culminating in a fiery meeting of two gangs and a final opportunity for redemption.
A Refiner's Fire is Donna Leon at her very best: an elegant, sophisticated storyteller whose indelible characters become richer with each book, and who constantly interrogates the ambiguity between moral and legal justice.
Biography
Donna Leon, geb. 1942, verließ mit 23 Jahren New Jersey, um in Perugia und Siena weiterzustudieren. Seit 1965 lebt sie ständig im Ausland, arbeitet als Reiseleiterin in Rom, als Werbetexterin in London, an amerikanischen Schulen in der Schweiz, im Iran, in China und Saudi-Arabien. Seit 1981 lebt und arbeitet sie in Venedig.
