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L'Inconnu du grand canal av Donna Leon
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L'Inconnu du grand canal (urspr publ 2012; utgåvan 2014)

av Donna Leon

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When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti's home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead.… (mer)
Medlem:genalice
Titel:L'Inconnu du grand canal
Författare:Donna Leon
Info:Calmann-Lévy (2014), Broché, 312 pages
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Beastly Things av Donna Leon (2012)

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I started listening to this on audio, but even after I got used to the Italian inflections (which may have died out after the first few chapters), listening was too slow for me. I didn't want to rev up the listening speed so I got the text from the library instead.

As usual, Brunetti is acutely aware of the ethical sewer of Venice, and works around it as he can. An unusual man is found in one of the canals, and is eventually traced to the industrial mainland. Identifying him, and why someone would want to stab him, is the process of the book.

Leon draws several almost-caricatures: a deformed man, an enormously fat man, a tall, very skinny man, a man who cannot stand the vision of meat processing. She continues to lean on the ethical controversies between vegetarians and the conventionally omnivorous - it will be interesting to see if she carries this forward in the series.. ( )
  ffortsa | Jan 8, 2024 |
Beastly Things is Book #21 of the Commissario Guido Brunetti series written by Donna Leon.
It is somewhat painful to read about this case. It involves corruption (of course) and murder (of course) at a slaughter house.
Guido’s remarks about traffic and choked highways are somewhat naively funny, but most of us don’t have the option of travel by motorboat and car-free walkways.
A highly recommended title and series **** ( )
  diana.hauser | Jan 5, 2024 |
Beastly Things (Comm. Brunetti #21) by Donna Leon. It is always a nice thing to revisit Venice at any time of the year. The canals, the ancient mansions that line them, the young lovers and the people of the town mixing and mingling as does the languages they speak. It is a city built on both the water and romance.
But it is a city, and like every other city in the world, there is evil. When the body of a man is discovered in a canal, the work of Commissario Brunetti begins. This is the 21st outing for this urbane detective and. like those that came before, this case has long arms that reach out from the water city and into the real world beyond.
The body is something of a mystery. No identification, one shoe missing and the body itself suffering from a rare, non-life threatening disease. This latter thing gives the man a very distinct look, one that people are sure to remember. Like Brunetti does, although he can’t quite recall from whence that memory comes.
As in all of the Brunette novels there is a great array of various themes presented. The family life of the Commissario plays an important role in grounding the detective in real life, keeping him away that the world is not just full of crime and bad people but is in fact a very good and welcoming place. His office life, wether sparring with his boss or indulging Signorina Elettra in her flagrant misuse of her skills as a computer hacker. That is something that is always useful to the police in discovering the whys behind many of the people they face.
Beastly Things takes Brunetti away from his beloved Venice and on to the main land of Italy, to be surrounded by the many beastly things that abound there, not least of which are traffic and factories. It is to this last inconvenience that calls to Brunetti and his right hand man, Inspector Vianello. They have tracked the dead man to his home and his work as a veterinarian. It is not the man’s work with pets that may have caused his death, but the job he took a few months ago to certify the animals that were being brought to a industrial slaughterhouse as being good enough to process. And to certify the processed meat as being edible.
As in many of these novels, real world concerns, in this case animal rights and the humane processing of such, comes into play making the book have a greater world view that so many other plain detective novels fail to achieve. This is another fine addition to a long ling of very satisfying novels set in the all to real, and wet, world of Venice.
And the last chapter may have you grabbing for a hankie, it’s that good. ( )
  TomDonaghey | Jun 20, 2023 |
It's a long time since I read a Commisario Brunetti novel, and though this would've been written 10 years after the last one I read, the characters remain familiar and I soon slipped back into the Venetian world of beauty and corruption. This was a comforting read. ( )
  Figgles | Feb 7, 2023 |
El cadáver de un hombre desfigurado aparece flotando en un canal. No hay denuncias de desapariciones, el hombre no lleva documentación, ha perdido un zapato, y Brunetti sólo cuenta con el informe del forense para su investigación: el difunto sufría una extraña enfermedad. Sin embargo, el comisario tiene la rara intuición de que conoce a la víctima; inexplicablemente, sabe que tiene los ojos claros. Siguiendo el rastro de una posible pista, Brunetti llegará hasta el matadero de Preganziol, en Mestre, fuera de su territorio habitual. ¿Quién es este hombre sin rostro ni pasado? ¿Quién y por qué lo eliminó?
  Natt90 | Jan 5, 2023 |
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In Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti’s hunt for clues during a murder investigation in Beastly Things, he makes his way to a meat company’s slaughterhouse on the mainland. There, the sounds and smells of the animal butchering cause Brunetti to feel helplessly faint at heart. Even though there is much sleuthing time left in the day, he hurries home for a long shower and glasses of wine. This treatment brings little relief to his delicate sensibilities, and next day, he continues to avoid the office, ignoring his duties in the case that took him to the slaughterhouse.

Can anyone imagine any other homicide cop, Harry Bosch for example, behaving like such a fragile flower? Dragging his feet on a murder case just because some cows were turned into steaks? The way it’s supposed to work, not even dead two-legged creatures should deter homicide guys. Four-legged corpses wouldn’t give Bosch a pause in his hunt for murderers.

But cops do things differently in Venice. Brunetti is famous for rarely passing up the sumptuous lunches and dinners his spectacular wife Paola prepares. And he punctuates each day with leisurely visits to bistros for coffee and pastries. Much of his work day, it’s true, is taken up with the necessary manipulation of his immediate superior, the very political Vice Questore Giuseppe Patta, and he must forever tiptoe around his country’s rampant corruption. Nevertheless, Brunetti seems seldom far from a snooze or a soothing glass of wine, especially when his sensitive nerves are threatened.

The 21st novel in Donna Leon’s series has all the familiar elements, but unlike other recent Brunetti books, this one offers an authentically puzzling case and some brilliant grilling of suspects. The story gets under way when a male body turns up in a Venice canal. Medical examination reveals that the victim was stabbed three times and stripped clean of all identification. Brunetti starts the case from scratch, without even a name for the body.

The usual shortcuts to vital information are provided to Brunetti by the Internet-savvy police receptionist, Signorina Elettra. (That’s another area where Bosch must operate differently, not having a secretary who saves him from pounding the pavement in the interests of answering the case’s smaller but essential questions.) Still, it’s Brunetti who shines on his own in the sessions of cross-examination. These exchanges are vastly entertaining, and show Brunetti, rallied from his spell of faint-heartedness, as a sleuth at the top of his game.
tillagd av VivienneR | ändraThe Toronto Star, Jack Batten (Jul 14, 2012)
 
Auch in Brunettis 21. Fall wirkt die nackte Gier als mörderische Triebkraft. In den Verhören der Beteiligten läuft der Kommissar zu großer Form auf, die Autorin konstruiert Dialoge voll Esprit und psychologischer Raffinesse.
tillagd av rat_in_a_cage | ändraSächsische Zeitung, Karin Großmann
 
Bei keinem Kommissar stimmt die Work-Life-Balance wie bei Guido Brunetti: Im 21. Fall lässt Donna Leon ihren Ermittler wieder an der Lagunenstadt leiden und Müßiggang, Familie, Essen, Wein genießen.
tillagd av rat_in_a_cage | ändraDie Welt, Elmar Krekeler
 

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When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti's home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead.

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