In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware that hurtling towards her is an old friend — Jackson Brodie — himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.
This is the second in Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy of novels. We first met Salander in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, in which she teamed up with Mikael Blomkvist, a liberal-leaning investigative journalist who was delving into the morally bankrupt world of big business. This time around, Larsson’s theme is misogyny and the harm done to women by corrupt, evil men.
The Girl Who Played With Fire is that rare thing - a sequel that is even better than the book that went before. Larsson was a journalist on a campaigning magazine and he apparently wrote the books every evening after work. He relished his task so much that it wasn’t until the third one (The Girl Who Kicked Hornets’ Nest) was almost finished that it occurred to him that they might be published. This is perhaps why they demand to be read in great, hungry chunks. Larsson began writing the trilogy as a hobby and his passion for his characters and subject is clear. He seems to mean what he writes.
You have probably heard of the Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Larsson is a publishing sensation, an accomplished crime writer who seemingly came from nowhere and sold millions of books in Scandinavia. This debut thriller, the first in a trilogy (the Millennium series), is a superb novel and impossible to put down. Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there’s no turning back.
Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch–and there’s always a catch–is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues.
Stieg Larsson unfortunately died in 2004 . Tragically, Larsson did not live to enjoy this success; he died of a heart attack, aged 50, before the novels were published. The book contains a tribute to him and his career.
Recensione:
Una giovane donna è trovata morta, l’hanno ammazzata. Salvo Montalbano deve investigare l’assassinio e, a poco a poco, scopre le verità che sono nascoste dietro alla vita della bella signora e al suo matrimonio “felicissimo”.
Non è un semplice capitolo della serie di gialli il cui protagonista è il commisasario Montalbano perchè questa volta lui deve fare una importante scelta sulla sua propria vita.
“Misia Mistrani l’ho conosciuta il 12 febbraio del 1978…”
Cosí comincia il mio romanzo favorito di questo autore italiano, ben concosciuto dal pubblico italiano e che da qualche anno si fa strada in Europa attraverso le traduzioni delle sue opere.È questa la storia di una amicizia che lega i tre personaggi del romanzo, Marco, Misia e Livio, il narratore. Attraverso distanze, silenzi e tradimenti si rendono conto che il suo rapporto è più forte che l’amore o il successo, e che non possono vivere l’uno senza l’altro.De Carlo tratta con abilità il tema dell’adolescenza, facendo un ritratto reale di una generazione anticonformista e idealista. Un romanzo di riflessione, complesso ma mai noioso che consiglio a tutti di leggere.Sul suo sito www.andreadecarlo.com potete leggere il primo capitolo di ogni suo romanzo.
Recensione:In una villa nell’isola di San Giulio vive il vecchio e ricchissimo barone Lamberto con il suo fedele maggiordomo Anselmo e sei persone pagate per ripetere il suo nome giorno e notte. Quale sarà la ragione di questo rituale?È un romanzo allegro, divertente, misterioso e adatto ai sognatori con delle situazioni e dei personaggi esilaranti.E’ una metafora del rapporto fra la vita e la morte e del desiderio degli uomini di vivere eternamente.É una delle storie piú meravigliose di Rodari, se ti piacciono le sue storie devi leggere questo libro.
The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel by the US writer Philip Roth. It tells the story of senior literature professor David Kepesh, who is renowned for hosting a literature-themed radio show. In spite of his implied cultural pedigree, Kepesh is finally destroyed by his inability to comprehend emotional commitment. The Dying Animal is the third book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor; the preceding novels are The Breast (1972) and The Professor of Desire (1977).
Praise for ‘The Ice Princess’: ‘Heart-stopping and heart-warming, ‘The Ice Princess’ is a masterclass in Scandinavian crime writing. Camilla Lackberg is a more than welcome addition to the growing ranks of Scandinavian crime writers translated into English. With its sharp emotional nuances and psychological insight, The Ice Princess builds in suspense as the author turns her clear eye on the buried secrets and contemporary relationships of a small, isolated community. The plot is simply superb, in an almost Agatha Christie-style. The cast of characters emerge with clarity and feel quite genuine! secrets come out in the 331-page book that bring about more things than murder. A book that you can’t put down!. Lackberg keeps the thrills coming until the very end. Camilla Lackberg was voted Swedish Writer of the Year for 2005.
Boyd’s ninth novel, an absorbing historical thriller, is loosely based on the history of a covert branch of British intelligence created to coax America into the Second World War. The story unfolds on parallel tracks as Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976. These installments give the narrative momentum (the accounts of Ruth’s daily life drag, by contrast) as Eva describes the taciturn spy who recruited and trained her before becoming her lover; her secret propaganda work in New York; and the act of duplicity, almost deadly, that forced her to flee to England and live under an assumed identity. Ruth barely has time to process the shock of her mother’s secret before she is swept into a dangerous game: finding her mother’s betrayer before it’s too late.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who betrayed his best friend Hassan, the son of his father’s Hazara servant but lives in regret. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Talibanregime.
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, following the rabbit-proof fence north as part of their guide across the desert.
This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.
WINNER of The Language Learner Literature Award 2007
Título: The Girl Who Played with Fire
Título: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Titolo:La Voce del Violino
Titolo: Di Noi Tre
Titolo: C’era due volte il barone Lamberto
Título: The Dying Animal
Título: The Ice Princess
Título: Restless
Título: The Kite Runner
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