Huye rápido, vete lejos (Nuevos Tiempos) (Spanish Edition)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9788415723837
ASIN: B00AELH9S6
Publish date: November 20th 2012
Publisher: Ediciones Siruela
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Roman,
France,
Italian Literature
Series: Commissaire Adamsberg (#4)
The main character is a sailor from Breton who, presumably, speaks in a Breton dialect. So the translator, genius that he is, decided that the way to translate this is to make him sound like a lower-class british sailor 'heave-ho, on yer arse, mate... oh, lordy, lordy!' from Liverpool (or whatever)....
How to can you not like a detective who supervises 26 other homicide flics and needs to use mnemonics such as acne, prognathous, solicitude, Marcel to associate names with faces, and who indulges in self-examination along the lines of "You think you're a million miles away from the likes of Favre, ...
hat is a brilliant if somewhat quirky thriller. It's Adamsberg at the top of his game. Vargas writes an intricate tapestry of characters, a very scary bogey man, the threat of a black plague epidemic is a scary, scary thing. She uses history, psychology and an unorthodox way of putting things togeth...
16 years ago
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