One of my most favourite books of all time. Forget the crime-plot twist. The exploration of cultural displacement, belonging and connection make it an absolutely amazing study of life.
The Nobel Prize laureate in literature of 1928, Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, begins her novel Jenny with Helge Gram's long yearned for arrival in Rome. Lost in the maze of unknown streets, he asks two Northern looking young women for help. They are Jenny Winge and her friend Cesca Jahrman, two pa...
While the criticism of many others about the ending is quite justified, this story of the power of books to move people caught me up and I had great difficulty letting it go (If the last section had been a bit stronger this would easily have crept into the 4.5 or 5* range) The story opens up with ...
Synopsis: When a small Inuit boy, Isaiah is found dead after having fallen off the roof of her apartment building, Smilla suspects his death was not an accident. The half Inuit Smilla had become very close to the boy and she becomes obsessed with finding the truth about his death. In a weird way ...
This had a great premise, but unfortunately it wasn't terribly well executed. The author didn't seem to know quite where the plot was going and it ended up in a rather cliched big-stand-off-with-the-bad-guy scene. The writing was rather pedestrian too, although it's possible that something was lost ...
I feel so totally betrayed by this book that I don't even care if this is a spoiler. I was led to believe, by my library, my wife, and the Danish Crime Academy (who gave it a "first book award - that seems a little unreasonable given that it's merely the first collaboration by a pair of authors usin...
There was nothing wrong with this book that I can put my finger on but I just couldn't help but feel disappointed at the end and sad that I could have spent my time reading 400+ pages of something more enjoyable.
Esperava mais, mas o autor criou uma teoria muito interessante, nunca antes vista. Dou-lhe pontos pela originalidade. (http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblioteca-das-sombras.html)A Biblioteca das Sombras sempre foi um livro, que desde o seu lançamento, me suscitou muito interesse. Como ...
According to the Talmud, thirty-six righteous people exist on earth and if they all die, so does humanity. Now, people are dying all over the world with strange marks on their backs and it's up to a Danish policeman named Niels Bentzon to find out why. There have been thirty-four deaths already. C...
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