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Der Brenner Und Der Liebe Gott (2009)

by Wolf Haas(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3455401899 (ISBN13: 9783455401899)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Hoffmann und Campe

series

Brenner

review 1: The storyteller is dead - long live the storyteller!! in the last of the 6 "Brenner" stories which are so special due to the way the lyrical I is speaking to us, he dies... Not the main character - no - the person telling is about Brenner, the ex policeman, ex detective. Now he is back and so is this "Mr. Simon" how Brenner is called in the beginning of this roller coaster of a crime story. As usual: written in an incomparable way Haas leads us through Austrian and general human absurdity - seen by the eyes of our unknown friend (the storyteller) lived through by the poor guy who solved so many scenes before and of course this one as well - with a mixture of mostly fatalism and sudden proactivity. Don't start with this one if you don't know the series - go to the first - b... moreut if you have read the other 6: don't miss that one!
review 2: This is a very clever murder mystery, written from an unusual and witty authorial viewpoint. The semi-omniscient narrator never identifies or explains himself, yet seems to know some things, and not know other things, and becomes a character in himself. He informs us early in the book that specific terrible things will happen, and when, and they do. This in no way detracts from the pleasures of walking through the poses and plans of the evil Senator, the rich developer and the scheming thugs. The setting is Vienna. The context is city politics, an abortion clinic, and a former police detective who has fallen in life to the status of a mere chauffeur to a rich family's four year old child. When bad things happen to his young charge he takes it upon himself to descend into the muck, figuratively and literally, and sort it all out. The plot is not unusual, although suitably gruesome and nauseating, but the contemporary Austrian cultural context and the narrative voice make this very much worth a read. less

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