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Bezig met laden... The Godmother (2017)door Hannelore Cayre
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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. This was heaps fun! Don't think I've ever read a french, feminist heist novel. I loved the FU attitude on Patience Portefeux. Middle-aged female misanthropes are massively under-represented in popular culture. Patience is also massively sympathetic, and while this is not critical to everyone's enjoyment of a central character (nor should it be) I totally dug it. Really interesting social commentary around societal attitudes and power structures relating to drugs, crime, and colonization. Also, got to love a short, sharp, snappy book. ( ) After Scandi noir comes banlieue noire. This deceptive little book packs a lot into its short and terse narrative. It eschews morals and emotions in favour of amoral cynicism and humour but does so in such a way as to invite the reader to conjure up the missing elements, thus heightening their impact. Similarly with its apparently unquestioning acceptance of the poverty and crime of the banlieues. A good read that stayed with me in a way that most crime novels don't. November 2020 ¿Cómo, cuando eres una mujer de cincuenta y tres años que has luchado toda tu vida para mantenerte a flote mientras crías a tus dos hijas y visitas a tu anciana madre internada en una residencia, que tienes un perro, un novio policía y un empleo precario como traductora del árabe para el ministerio de Justicia transcribiendo horas y horas de conversaciones telefónicas entre los móviles intervenidos de traficantes de poca monta, terminas cruzando la línea roja que separa lo legal de lo que no lo es? Nada más sencillo: casi por azar, empiezas a mover toneladas de cánnabis, y lo haces tranquilamente, sin sentir culpa ni temor, sino más bien, digamos, con un alegre desapego... Y así es como, de la noche a la mañana, acabas convertida en la Madrina. Hannelore Cayre ha conseguido en La Madrina —auténtico fenómeno de público y crítica dentro del panorama reciente del noir galo— hacer de su poliédrica protagonista, Paciencia Portafuegos, un irreverente, carismático e inolvidable personaje que Isabelle Huppert encarna magistralmente en la reciente adaptación cinematográfica de la novela. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Inspiration for the major motion picture Mama Weed; translated from the international bestseller La Daronne, winner of the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, France's most prestigious prize for crime fiction Meet Patience Portefeux, a fifty-three-year-old, underpaid Franco-Arab interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in phone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her aging mother. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in - and infiltrating - the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes The Godmother. This is not the French idyll of postcards and stock photos. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers, and politicians, The Godmother casts its sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France. With an unforgettable woman at its center, Hannelore Cayre's bestselling novel reveals a European criminal underground that has rarely been s Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)843.92Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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