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Mit Brunetti Durch Venedig (2012)

by Toni Sepeda(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3257066708 (ISBN13: 9783257066708)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Diogenes

review 1: I selected this book because I've loved being in Venice and walking the city and I'm a long time fan of Donna Leon's Venetian mysteries. The dozen walking tours skillfully blend the sights with passages from various novels featuring Brunetti, and other characters and settings from the mysteries.Venice is by far my favorite walking city. You always get a bit lost but you're never truly lost. Part of the enchantment of the city is discovering the history and people in the buildings, the shops and life along and on the canals. Sunrise in Venice is a sight that shouldn't be missed.The walking tours are terrific. The book loses half a star because there is no index. The book would also benefit, and be more enjoyable for the armchair traveler, from a few photographs of key sight... mores along each walk.
review 2: Donna Leon's series of Venice-set mystery novels starring Commissario Guido Brunetti provide an understanding of the unique community that is not available in any conventional travel book. Brunetti's (and Ms. Leon's) knowledge, appreciation, and criticism of all things Venetian provided us with a wider vision of what it was really like to live there and illuminated our most recent trip to the island city. The 11 walks in Ms. Sepeda's book gave us even more insights, particularly as she juxtaposed paragraphs from 16 of the novels (with Leon's permission) with Sepeda's own knowledge and observations. We learn about the where and why of Brunetti's walks, about calle and campos that he visits, about restaurants and other stores that he frequents. Many of the restaurants and retail places actually exist, and Sepeda identifies their exact location. Ms. Sepeda, a professor of literature and art history in northern Italy, is the only person authorized by Donna Leon to conduct Brunetti tours of Venice. I highly recommend that anybody planning on a trip to Venice read some (all) of the Brunetti novels and this book to get a better understanding of the unique community and culture that is Venice. less

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