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Donna Leon's growing American fan base is hungry for more of the books from her internationally bestselling series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti. Now in what many consider one of the finest in the series, Venice braces for the onslaught of acqua alta—the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a man's body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases. Full of marvelous plot twists, Acqua Alta is a chilling addition to Donna Leon's addictive series.
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A Staunchly Slogging Guido.......2007-07-16
This is only the second Commissario Brunetti book I've read, and Acqua Alta is vastly superior to the other (Through a Glass, Darkly). I should admit that I didn't read either for their "mysteries," but rather to enjoy their depictions of the various unique levels of Venecian culture that Guido slogs through.
And herein, he really is slogging; the "acqua alta" (high tide) of the book's title is omnipresent, flooding walkways and forcing detours. I believe I can safely guarantee that no reader has seen a book with more mentions of umbrellas, rubber boots, and drinking on the job as this one.
I did a bit of slogging myself when I came to Acqua Alta's "Scooby Doo" ending. The less said about it, the better, perhaps. I prefer to remember this entertaining book for its wry humor, flavorful characters, and well-depicted setting. This is a terrific airport read, all the more so if the airport in question is near Venezia.
Highly Recommended: Andrea Camilleri's excellent crime novels set in Sicily, for example The Terra-Cotta Dog.
Murder Italian Style.......2007-01-13
I love Donna Leon's series. Aqua Alta gives you a glimpse of life in Italy and in the sinking city of Venice as well as a mystery. Its a quick read great for traveling.
Substandard, for Donna Leon.......2006-10-05
Now, do not get me wrong. Her writing - I mean the language and the craft - is great as always. The general idea for this book is also not a bad one. But the plot ...
Brunetti spends the whole time in just four locations: his home, his workplace, his favorite watering place and the palazzo where he keeps visiting both ladies, Brett and Flavia, whether necessary or not, and where the crime took place. There is no deduction or investigation at all. Whatever information the Commissario needs, he gets it promptly from his two friends, an artist with "deep knowledge" of Venetian art crime scene and an art theft investigator from Rome. So whenever Brunetti gets stuck, he only needs to call one of them or they conveniently happen to call him, and hey pronto! - the next missing piece of the puzzle is served on the plate.
This is so unrealistic it can only be topped by the fantasy fiction character of Signorina Elettra, a sort of Mary Poppins of the Venetian police who can miraculously provide just about any information about anyone in the country in any desired time and who, on her meagre secretarial salary, can afford new ultra expensive items of clothing every single day. One really has to wonder. She is quite likeable and interesting but belongs rather in a modern day Wizard of Oz story. Unless Acqua Alta is meant to be a parody and not a mystery novel. There is nothing mysterious if the crime, so to speak, solves by itself while Brunetti is dilligently, if tediously, commuting in the ever deteriorating weather between home, office and his trattoria.
I understand Italian but I too found the Italian words out of place. Why use them if people in the book speak Italian all the time anyway, regardless of the language the book was written in?
VICENZA CORRUPTION AND FLOODING TAKES COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI'S CITY BY STORM........2006-03-17
With non-stop rain the siren at San Marco had finally sounded, Venice waters were rising. The boards had gone up in the piazza Acqua Alta (high water) was on its way.
Commissario Brunetti of the Venice police is splashing puddles over his new case; a file has landed on his desk containing a name that seems familiar to him Ms Brett Lynch the American who deals in art. Brunetti had last interviewed Ms Lynch about a Death at La Fenice years previously. Dottoressa Lynch had been beaten badly and was in hospital, the file states robbery; this all took place at her lovers home Flavia Petrelli the Opera singer and reigning diva of La Scala. Brunetti intrigued and also willing to help old acquaintances; pays a visit to the hospital. Brett informs him that two men had beaten her not for robbery but with a message don't keep that appointment with Dottor Semenzato on Wednesday.
Dottor Semenzato, a well respected and powerful man in the art world and director of an art museum, unfortunately for him that's also where they had found his body, murdered. Suddenly Semenzato life becomes an open book to Brunetti, there had been a lot happening in Semenzato business life, a silent partner in an antiques business and large sums of money being pasted around. Semenzato was taking many flights to and from different countries on a regular basis. Carmello La Capra was another name that appeared on many of the hotels listing at the same time; were these two men connected or coincidence? Carmello La Capra an interesting man of wealth, who appeared to have had no job or fixed employment for the last three years but appeared on his latest tax return down as a consultant, a factor that he was also from Palermo started bells ringing.
Brunetti was about to get a crash course into the world of Chinese ceramics art and the darker dealings of Fakery. Everything was not as it seems, Venice was full of uncertainty and unpredictability just like the Weather.
I have been working my way through the whole series, this is my favorite Donna Leon book so far. As always I picked up on the fictional Characterization in the book my two Favorites would be the wonderful Sicilian Vice-Questore Giuseppe Patta (Brunetti Boss) who main Job is to meet as many people in high society as possible and makes decision on what gives him the best image. Secondly Signorina Elettra (Brunetti's hidden source) for her latest outfit, Sharp as a razor mind, her soft spot for Brunetti and we never asked where she gets her information, we just accept it.
Brunetti has a warm place in everyone's heart, a smooth operator a calm presence of charm with the support of a loving family he could do no wrong.
This book is wonderful, a chance to wade through Venice at high tide don't forget your wellies.
depressing.......2005-10-10
i just became acquainted with this writer myself and began with
"death in a strange country." i bought three of her mysteries at the same time because they looked so promising and because i am planning a trip to italy (at least i was before reading these books)and thought these books might be a "painless" way to soak up some local color before i go. they are anything but painless. if i had no alternative to living there and the city of venice was as ms. leon describes it i would shoot myself. an example: should you find yourself in a particular hospital and unable to provide the requisite graft to the orderlies, nurses and staff, you may as well hang it up.
another: the commissario's supervisor (the equivalent of the chief of police) is so mercenary and so fearful of the economic and social elite that it is nothing more than a meaningless ritual to attempt to solve a crime because punishment occurs only when fate intervenes, not as a result of justice being served. this is one bleak picture believe me.
as to the writing, maybe someone can provide a suitable explanation for this quote, (i myself cannot make heads or tails out of it). at the end of a paragraph in which the author describes, in a trite passage, 2 attractive american girls buying ice cream cones she finishes with this sentence - "the bar filled with the sad boom of another boat as it crashed against the wharf." what in the world does that mean? if she is making an analogy about the disappointment of the barrista because the girls left with the cones instead of eating them in the bar it is probably the most tortured analogy i have ever read, if not i have no idea what she is talking about.
i have one other quibble concerning something which this author is not alone in doing. the story takes place in italy and the characters are speaking in italian 95% of the time. why are some words in italian for no apparent reason while everything else in the book is in english? many times the italian word used is not one that a non-italian speaker would be familiar with and it is likewise not possible for one with ordinary intelligence (me i hope)to discern the precise meaning from the context. why is this done? color? it's very annoying to me.
after reading this novel i will continue on to the third one that i bought, but unless she becomes graham greene, i won't be buying another. they are just too darn bleak.
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An American living near Venice, Donna Leon has crafted an imaginative series of mysteries set in the waterborne city, all starring police detective Guido Brunetti. In this, the fifth installment, Brunetti sets out to investigate an assault on an American archeologist who herself is investigating a museum exhibition of Chinese antiquities. The moods of Venice and the reflections of the canny, emotional detective are the most affecting qualities of the book.
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Guido Brunetti solves another one!!.......2001-02-27
One of the things that I so love about Donna Leon's books is that in addition to being terrific mysteries - they evoke all of the smells and tastes, and sights and sounds of this wonderful city. Having been to Venice I love to read about where Guido is sitting down for a coffee or a drink, and which alleys he crosses and which vapos he takes, and what he notices in the streets and canals because these things are all real! In this latest Guido Brunetti mystery Leon resurrects two protagonists from "Death at La Fenice", the diva soprano, Flavia Petrelli and her lesbian lover Brett Lynch (an American archeologist). Brett opens the door of Flavia's and her apartment to find a couple of thugs who tell her not to make a meeting with the director of a museum who recently showed some of her rare pieces of ancient pottery from China. Although Brett is hurt but not killed, the director is murdered before she can speak to him. Brunetti weaves his way through the alleys of Venice's hoodlum underground, finds himself in the home of one of the Venice's greatest art collectors (whose son is one of those hoodlums.... could there be a connection), and must reexamine the "accidental" death of Brett's young assistant while on a dig back in China. Of course it all comes together one night during the infamous high waters (when the full moon causes the monthly flooding of the narrow Venetian streets and plazas), hence the name of this particular mystery.
Donna Leon fans should rush to Amazon.co.uk!.......1999-07-04
"Aqua Alta" is another splendid, can't-put-it-down engagement with Guido Brunetti. I despaired of reading any more of Donna Leon's fine prose and carefully crafted plots when notified last year that publication had been cancelled of a forthcoming book. Led by a note in another review, I checked out Amazon.co.uk, where I found "Death of Faith," "A Noble Radiance," and the book I just finished, "Fatal Remedies." Each is as good or better than its predecessor. I remain a dedicated fan. (Be aware, "The Anonymous Venetian" was published in the US with the title "Dressed for Death.") Also, some of Leon's works that are out-of-print in the US are available in the UK.
Leon Scores Again, "Bravissima!".......1999-02-10
"Acqua Alta" is the fifth in Donna Leon's mesmerizing series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police and, as in the previous works, the author once again manages to capture not only the soul but the heart, literally, of modern day Venice. Reality lurks behind every page, it seems, of a Donna Leon novel, from the cold, creaking listings of ages-old buildings almost atop the famed canals to the musty, bone-chilling foggy days as the "high waters" begin to permeate the once Serene Republic's confines. And, of course, thre's a murder or two lurking around some hidden corner of some fourteenth-century palazzo and naturally, as in the other works, it is Brunetti's dedication, his loyalty, and above all else his honesty in seeking out the truth that eventually bring about the solution. Leon's conclusions, however, are not always the easiest, most convenient, or happiest, as she gallops away from the melodramatic and lets reality win again. She underscores the fact that there are evil people about and, yes, occasionally, they win. Sometimes, by the end of her books, not all the guilty are punished, but the cases are solved, nonetheless. To say Venice, or even Italy itself, is any more corrupt than any other place is not the question, but Leon, herself an American English teacher at the University of Maryland extension campus at the U.S. Army's Vicenza (Italy) post, has spent quite a number of years in Italy, speaks the language, and captures the nuances of the people and of their daily lives, it seems; indeed, quite an accomplishment for an outsider. "You don't want to keep Doctor Semenzato's appointment." With this warning, two men proceed to beat Brett Lynch within an inch of her life. Thus, the action really begins in this fast-paced book. We'd met Brett in the previous Leon book. Brett is a famed anthropologist (NOT an architect as the writer in a preceding review asserts) and is the lover of noted Italian soprano Flavia Petrelli; she is involved in an extensive dig in China where she has helped uncover a priceless "find." Enter the art thieves, murderers, and con men. Indeed, from this point, murder and mayhem do follow and Commissario Brunetti is quick to pick up the case, indeed, he is eager for it. For in the previous case, Flavia and Brett had both been chief suspects in the case. Since then, Guido has come to respect them both and, to some extent, even considers them friends. He is appalled at the brutality of the assault and fears for Brett's life. In the course of this investigation, more than one murder transpires, with art-world theft as the circulating theme. What has "high water" (Acqua Alta) to do with the book? Acqua alta is the dread of every Venezian, as climatic changes cause the water in the canals to rise above their normal levels and a city ordinarily accustomed to much water anyway finds itself literally being inundated by even more of it! Thus, like Sandburg's fog in Chicago, the water becomes another character, always looming, always rising, always threatening. But unlike Sandburg's fog, it doesn't creep in on little cat's feet. And it comes not to wash away the sins but to underscore them. The end comes with the usual "bang" and Brunetti is left to ponder the aftermath. His path of glory indeed leads but to the grave for his villains, as Thomas Gray might have written in his "Elegy." (Leon has pubished her latest--and seventh--Brunetti novel, "A Noble Radiance" which is not yet available in the States. I had the great fortune to buy a copy on a recent trip to London. It is another Brunetti worth waiting for!)
Evocative of Venice, easy read.......1999-01-15
If you have ever been to Venice this book will transport you back there. Leon uses a light hand on descriptive phrases but still manages to evoke the essence of Venice. The book is an easy read, without being boring. Lovers of mystery will find this book has all the elements of a Colin Dexter or P D James, with a nice change of scenery.
The best commissario Brunetti so far.......1998-04-18
Commissario Brunetti is becoming an institution, just like Simenon's Maigret. In Donna Leon's prose the city of Venice becomes the natural setting for crime - all the morbid beauty transforms into stories of murder, passion, betrayal and games of power. My recommendation: Read the whole series of Brunetti mysteries!!
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The story of Venice's high tide and how the city & citizens cope.
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ACQUA ALTA
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The Superstitious Life of Trimble DeFeet
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Inhibited, self-conscious Trimble DeFeet is singularly unsuccessful as sole US representative for Laguiole Knife Company; he is also lead singer for Scapegoat, a band that plays Seventies hits by black artists in funky nightspots. Ahman Relinquiche is the personally magnetic, spiritually astute daughter of a sadistic mid-eastern despot. When Trimble saves Ahman's life by performing an emergency tracheotomy with an heirloom knife on the grubby dance floor of Chubby Silk's Nocturnal Experience, he does not expect to get his first massage--or his first lessons in self-redemption and universal love. In presenting a rigorous, reasonable case for the logic of love, she raises issues that lead Trimble far beyond his familiar hesitations to an exotic country where he finds unexpected redemption.
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Do you have the guts?.......2003-04-24
The Superstitious Life of Trimble DeFeet is an interesting tale of a young mans' search for understanding in the depths of love and self discovery. This personal search turns out to be dangerous for Trimble and entertaining and thought provoking for us, the readers. I didn't take this book too seriously when I first read it but with further consideration I find it to be quite interesting and philosophically intriguing. This is a must read for anyone interested in the philosophical complexities of love and the lengths some of us will go to truly understand its' power and impact on the self and humankind.
Give Trimble a test drive.
Cheers
SjD
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PERSIAN COOKING: A TABLE OF EXOTIC DELIGHTS is collection of 322 authentic recipes from the world's oldest cuisine. Clear and concise instructions make the dishes turn out exactly as they are supposed to.
Persian cooking is based on lamb, fruits, vegetables and grains, used in subtle and varied combinations. The food is neither highly spiced nor hot but seasoned with herbs. It is very nutritious. Many of the dishes are suitable for vegetarians and in many others, meat may be easily omitted. The dishes can be made from ingredients found in almost any market. A guide to speciality stores where hard-to-find ingredients, which are used in a few dishes, can be found is also included.
Rice preparation, which has often been observed defines the quality of the Persian chef, is covered in detail.
Half Persian and half English, Nesta Ramazani has lived in both countries, making her uniquely qualified to offer these recipes. During a one year return visit to Iran she picked the brains of both professional chef and housewife. She also consulted Rosa Montazemi's classical Persian language cookbook, Honar-e Ashpazi. Back in America, she tested and tried out the hundreds of dishes and rendered the recipes to exact American measurements and timing.
The author observes: "Here is a culinary art so highly developed that the most lowly vegetable can taste divine, every meal can be a gastronomic treat, every cook a creative artist."
Mrs. Ramazani also includes a historical and cultural introduction to the food of Persia. The background of many of the dishes are also explained through engaging anecdotes.
Included are: 322 recipes from all regions of Iran: soups, ashes, stews (khoresht and khorak), dolmehs, boranis, vegetables, salads, rice dishes (pollos and chelos), kababs, breads (nan), sweets, desserts, sharbats and pickles (torshis). Photographs of prepared dishes. A short dictionary of Persian culinary terms. A guide to grocery stores outside of Iran where hard-to-find ingredients may be obtained. A historical and cultural guide to Persian cuisine.
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A short review........2001-12-31
I found the book complet and comprehensive and recommend it without reservation.Bon apetit
Persian Cooking.......2001-06-23
I have a large selection of Persian cookbooks but this book is my favorite. Nesta is an excellant cook and the final results of her recipes are very delicious. I am American, but married to a Persian man, so when I cook Persian food I want to please his taste buds. I have cooked many of the recipes in this book and he has enjoyed every one of them. I would recommend this book to any one that is looking for authentic Persian cooking. Many Middle Eastern cookbooks include recipes other than what the people of Iran enjoy. When you cook from this book you can be sure that the recipe is from Iran. You won't be able to stop eating! Enjoy
Nutritious, economical, and delicious recipes.......2001-04-27
Persian cuisine is among the oldest in recorded human history and principally based on subtle and varied combinations of lamb, fruits, vegetables, and grains. Nesta Ramazani's Persian Cooking: A Table Of Exotic Delights offers nutritious, economical, and delicious recipes for appetizers, soups, stuffed vegetables, Persian souffles, yogurt dishes, salads, stewed meats, game birds, brad, pastries, puddings, sherbets, pickles, and more. From Mint and Parsley Soup with Green Plums, Stuffed Grape Leaves, Tomato Rice with Lamb, and Duckling in Pomegranate-Walnut Sauce, to Yogurt with Eggplant and Meatballs, Liver and Kidney Casserole, Pheasant with Cream, Chick-Pea Flower Cookies, and Pickled Cherry Tomatoes, Persian Cooking is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to any ethnic and multicultural cookbook collection.
Very Good Persian Cookbook.......1999-05-04
I'm from Iran and have used various Persian cookbooks. This is the only one in English where the recipes turned out as they should have.
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