Drawing Conclusions [antikvár]

DRAWING CONCLUSIONSDonna Leon has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through a Glass, Darkly, Suffer the Little Children, The Girl of His Dreams and, most recently, A Question of BeliefPraise for Drawing Conclusions'[Leon's] portrait of Venice and modern Italy is, as always, captivating The lively conversations between characters, displaying Leon's sly humour, are a delight. Her novels are really studies in human nature, both good and bad, and as a result are far more interesting than mere tales of shooty-shooty bang bang.' Evening Standard'With characteristic skill, Leon draws together multiple threads and a well-rounded cast, while her restrained prose gives equal weight to the protagonist's nebulous suspicions So subtly does Leon's narrative develop that we are unaware of having formed impressions, until, as imperceptibly as she pointed us in one direction, she spins us round to face another. With the steady, unsentimental style that has become her signature. Donna Leon keeps us hesitating until the last corner is turned.' Times Literary Supplement'More elegant, understated crime fighting from the mistress of La Serinissima A welcome return to the comfortable characters and locations that her fans have come to love.' IndependentBecause she had worked for decades as a translator of fiction and non-fiction from English and German to Italian, Anna Maria Giusti was familiar with a wide range of subjects. Her most recent translation had been an American self-help book about how to deal with conflicting emotions. Though the superficial idiocies she had encountered - which had always sounded sillier when she put them into Italian - had occasionally reduced her to giggles, some of the text returned to her now, as she climbed the stairs to her apartment.'It is possible to feel two conflicting emotions about the same person at the same time.' So it had proven with her feelings towards her lover, whose famHy she had just returned from visiting in Palermo. 'Even people we know well can surprise us when they are placed in different surroundings.' 'Different' seemed an inadequate word to describe Palermo and what she had found there. 'Alien',