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S'està carregant… Lucifer's Shadow (2001)de David Hewson
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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. Ratings don’t do justice to this novel. Loved every bit of it to the point I finished reading 515 pages in a single day. Lush plot! ( ) Niet zeuren: je hebt het gelezen als tijdverdrijf en het voldeed. De plot, met een klassiek spiegeleffect, is niet onaardig. Maar wel weinig verrassend. Iedereen is wie hij of zij lijkt te zijn, je weet bij pagina twee al wie met wie zal, enz. Verder zijn er de toevalligheden en frons je af en toe de wenkbrauwen bij de historische passages. Maar zoals gezegd: niet zeuren. Venetië biedt altijd een aardig decor, de personages, de goede dan, zijn al even aardig, er zijn vele schakeringen grijs, naast het overduidelijke Luciferzwart en de wisselwerking tussen het historische verhaal uit de achttiende eeuw en het hedendaagse werkt. Samengevat: een aardige thriller. A thriller, a mystery and a well told story. Two time lines (modern day and the 1730's); two mirrored stories - two young men who come to Venice connected by a house, a piece of music and a violin. There is a real sense of time and place to both sections of this story. Daniel and Lorenzo are both likeable young men and the mystery that they both are involved in is an interesting plot. I was carried away by this and, until the final historical section, thought it was a very good to excellent book but that last scene was a step too far for me. One tiny plot point knocks half a star off my rating. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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In an ancient burial ground on an island off Venice, a young woman's casket is pried open, an object is wrenched from her hands, and an extraordinary adventure begins. From the moment he arrives in Venice, Daniel Forster is seduced by the city's mystery and eroticism. An earnest young academic, Daniel has come for a summer job cataloguing a private collector's library. But when Daniel's employer sends him to buy a stolen violin from a petty thief, a chain reaction of violence and deception ignites. Suddenly Daniel is drawn into a police investigation--and a tempest swirling around a beautiful woman, a mysterious palazzo, and a lost musical masterpiece dating back centuries. With each step he takes, Daniel unwittingly retraces a journey that began in 1733, when another young man came to Venice. And when, in this realm of intrigue and beauty, two lovers came face-to-face with a killer--and a mystery was born. Separated by centuries, two tales of passion, betrayal, and danger collide in David Hewson's dazzling novel. Sweeping us from the intrigue of Vivaldi's Venice to the gritty world of a modern cop, from the genius of a prodigy to the greed of a killer, Lucifer's Shadow builds to a shattering crescendo--and one last, breathtaking surprise. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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