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Ad Occhi Chiusi (2003)

by Gianrico Carofiglio(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8838919054 (ISBN13: 9788838919053)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Sellerio

series

Guido Guerrieri

review 1: Bari, Italy's defense lawyer Avocato Guido Guerrieri is approached by a friend to represent a woman, who has been abused by the son of a well-known judge in a her word against his type of case. Then Guido discovers that she had a nervous breakdown while in school, and will be pilloried as unstable. Her protector, a nun named Claudia is also involved, and forms a kind of spiritual bond with Guido. The ending is a surprise.
review 2: Guido Guerrieri is an Italian lawyer in Bari whose first person musings on the Law, relationships, life’s challenges and moral ambiguities pave the way through this interesting story about his latest client, an abused woman who decides to take her ex-boyfriend before the court. The story is full of irony, social comment and shar... morep satirical bursts of word-play. It alerted me to consider the translator, without whose skills I would not be able to enjoy this author’s work. I am sadly deficient in languages other than English yet am a keen reader of literature in translation which has opened up so much of the contemporary world to me. We owe translators a great debt of gratitude. The CWA’s International Dagger Award for translators of crime fiction into English is recognition of their value, but there needs to be more attention given to what we so easily take for granted. less

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