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Bezig met laden... Behind God's Backdoor Harri Nykänen, Kristian London (Vertaler)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. For me, this thriller was just compelling enough to finish -- it did not live up to its interesting premise. It's set in Finland, but most of the characters are members of Finland's small Jewish community, including the detective who tells the story. That leaves room for conflicted loyalties, complex motives, cultural ambiguities -- all those things that can lend depth and interest to a thriller. The depth is pretty shallow, however, and the interest was just enough to keep me reading to the end. There's little Finnishness about the book (the main thing we hear about the country is that it is cold) There's a bit more Jewishness, and some sense of what it's like to operate in a very small community where everybody knows everybody. But if this causes the detective any conflict, it's not obvious. And the motivating force in the story isn't really character, it's far-away machinations by business people and politicians. At some point I may read the first story in the series, but I'm not in any rush. Would be give it two stars, except for the strongish characterization. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Ariel Kafka (3)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Travel Literature.
HTML: The murder of a fellow Jew throws Helsinki detective Ariel Kafka into a maelstrom of international intrigue and high-level corruption.| Praise for Harri Nykänen's Nights of Awe: "The clever combination of classic Jewish themes with the traditions of Nordic crime makes for a refreshing tale with wide appeal. And the subtle humor makes it even better."â??Booklist "Professional responsibility and ethnic affiliation clash in Nykänen's intriguing first novel. The resolution will satisfy noir fans."â??Publishers Weekly "Ariel Kafka wins the award for most intriguing name for a fictional detective, and it suits this impressively labyrinthine mystery series."â??Time Out The second in the Ariel Kafka series. There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a religiously non-observant forty-something bachelor who is such a stubborn, dedicated policeman that he's willing to risk his career to get an answer. Murky circumstances surround his investigation of a Jewish businessman's murder. Neo-Nazi violence, intergenerational intrigue, shady loansâ??predictable lines of investigation lead to unpredictable culprits. But a second killing strikes closer to home, and the Finnish Security Police come knocking. The tentacles of Israeli politics and Mossad reach surprisingly far, once again wrapping Kafka in their sticky embrace. Harri Nykänen, born in Helsinki in 1953, was a well-known crime journalist and is now dedicated to writing fiction. The first in the Ariel Kafka series was Nights of Awe. Nykänen's work exposes the local underworld through the eyes of the criminal, the terrorist, and now from the point of view of an eccentric Helsinki po Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)894.54133Literature Literature of other languages Altaic, Finno-Ugric, Uralic and Dravidian languages Fenno-Ugric languages Fennic languages Finnish Finnish fiction 1900–2000LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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