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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to help people with problems in their lives. Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors.… (meer)
bell7: Readers who enjoy Mma Ramotswe's understanding of people may also appreciate Inspector Gamache's methods and insistence that listening to and understanding people solve cases.
elbakerone: Although they take place in different African countries (Smith's Botswana and Parkin's Rwanda), both books have a similar flavor with the leading ladies helping out their neighbors. Throughout their respective stories, each book reveals a bit about the culture and daily life of the country where it takes place.… (meer)
amyblue: Although Jana Bibi is set in India and No. 1 Ladies detective Agency is set in Botswana, both have a great respect for the local culture but are told from a more western perspective, and both have a cast of quirky characters.
Mevrouw Ramotswe begint een privé-detectivebureau in Afrika. In het begin is het niet gemakkelijk om geld in het laatje te krijgen; ze moet eerst een klantenkring opbouwen. Haar opdrachten brengen haar in bizarre situaties. Het hele boek bestaat eigenlijk uit kleine verhaaltjes; zaken die ze moet oplossen. Als rode draad erdoorheen loopt de vermissing van een jongetje. Het was een dun boekje en hoewel vermakelijk viel het me in zijn geheel wel tegen. Ik had het spannender verwacht, maar Mma Ramotswe komt het min of meer zo aanwaaien. Kortom; het ging te gemakkelijk allemaal. ( )
Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers.
toegevoegd door Lemeritus | bewerkPublishers Weekly(Aug 27, 2002)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This book is for
Anne Gordon-Gillies
in Scotland
and for
Joe and Mimi McKnight
in Dallas, Texas
Eerste woorden
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Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill.
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...was featureless land, cluttered with low thorn trees, on the branches of which there perched the hornbills and the fluttering molopes, with their long, trailing tail feathers. It was a world that seemed to have no end, and that, I think, is what made Africa in those days so different. There was no end to it. A man could walk, or ride, forever, and he would never get anywhere. -Page 15
...every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. -Page 18
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That’s how most people thought. -Page 35
The Reverend looked down at the ground, which, in her experience, was where people usually looked if they felt truly sorry. The shamelessly unrepentant, she found, always looked up at the sky. -Page 68
If she had listened to her father, if she had listened to the cousin’s husband, she would never have married Note and the years of unhappiness would never have occurred. But they did, because she was headstrong, as everybody is at the age of twenty, and when we simply cannot see, however much we may think we can. The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind. -Page 135
Mma Ramotswe did not want Africa to change. She did not want her people to become like everybody else, soulless, selfish, forgetful of what it means to be an African, or, worse still, ashamed of Africa. She would not be anything but an African, never, even if somebody came up to her and said “Here is a pill, the very latest thing. Take it and it will make you into an American.” She would say no. Never. No thank you. -Page 215
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to help people with problems in their lives. Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors.
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Met de erfenis van haar vader maakt Precious - Mma - Ramotswe een droom waar: een eigen bedrijf beginnen. Ze opent het eerste en enige detectivebureau in Botswana onder vrouwelijk beheer. Mma Ramotswe is kien en hartelijk en wil niets liever dan mensen helpen met de problemen in hun leven. Een zaak die haar zeer aan het hart gaat, is de verdwijning van een elfjarige jongen.
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Het was een dun boekje en hoewel vermakelijk viel het me in zijn geheel wel tegen. Ik had het spannender verwacht, maar Mma Ramotswe komt het min of meer zo aanwaaien. Kortom; het ging te gemakkelijk allemaal. (