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S'està carregant… All Human Wisdomde Pierre Lemaitre
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. H2.1.6 Història de la caiguda d'una hereva que, traïda pels homes de la seva confiança fins a la ruïna, planeja la seva venjança. La imatge inicial és impactant (abans de sortir la professor fúnebre d'un reputat banquer, el seu net de 7 anys es tira sobre el fèretre) però la primera part és avorrida. Més endavant es fa més lleugera i fins i tot trepidant. A mi, però, en general no m'ha agradat massa: els personatges una mica massa estereotipats, amb pocs matisos; algunes de les trames del tot increïbles i d'altres, ridícules; i el desenvolupament de la venjança deixa com a superllesta la Madeleine i tontos, la resta. L'amor de mare i el context històric: el que més m'ha agradat o he trobat més tendre. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times "A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars trilogy In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Péricourt. His daughter, Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although, unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More unfortunately still, when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul, tumbles from a second floor window of the Péricourt mansion on the day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing injuries, his fall sets off a chain of events that will reduce Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months. Using all her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by storm. A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of disaster. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union From the reviews for The Great Swindle "The most purely enjoyable book I've read this year" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph "The vast sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac. Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive" Marcel Berlins, The Times No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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