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Donna Leon

Autor(a) de Morte no La Fenice

75+ Works 40,597 Membros 1,464 Críticas 94 Favorited

About the Author

Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers mostrar mais Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Sept. 27, 2005

Séries

Obras por Donna Leon

Morte no La Fenice (1992) 3,525 exemplares
Death in a Strange Country (1993) 2,039 exemplares
Acqua Alta (1997) 1,864 exemplares
The Anonymous Venetian (1994) 1,770 exemplares
A Noble Radiance (1998) 1,719 exemplares
A Venetian Reckoning (1995) 1,626 exemplares
Uniform Justice (2003) 1,573 exemplares
Blood from a Stone (2005) 1,560 exemplares
Na senda do crime (1999) 1,513 exemplares
Friends in High Places (2000) 1,511 exemplares
Doctored Evidence (2004) 1,499 exemplares
Through a Glass, Darkly (2006) 1,480 exemplares
The Death of Faith (1997) 1,451 exemplares
A Sea of Troubles (2001) 1,379 exemplares
Wilful Behaviour (2002) 1,349 exemplares
Suffer the Little Children (2007) 1,346 exemplares
The Girl of His Dreams (2008) 1,323 exemplares
About Face (2009) 1,196 exemplares
A Question of Belief (2010) 1,116 exemplares
Drawing Conclusions (2011) 1,008 exemplares
The Golden Egg (2013) 916 exemplares
By Its Cover (2014) 910 exemplares
Beastly Things (2012) 903 exemplares
Earthly Remains (2017) 706 exemplares
The Waters of Eternal Youth (2016) 700 exemplares
Falling in Love (2015) 694 exemplares
The Jewels of Paradise (2012) 579 exemplares
The Temptation of Forgiveness (2018) 566 exemplares
Unto Us a Son is Given (2019) 542 exemplares
Trace Elements (2020) 480 exemplares
Transient Desires (2021) 456 exemplares
Give Unto Others (2022) 360 exemplares
So Shall You Reap (2023) 265 exemplares
My Venice and Other Essays (2005) 202 exemplares
Brunetti's Cookbook (2009) 191 exemplares
Wandering through Life: A Memoir (2023) 69 exemplares
Gondola (1900) 37 exemplares
Venetian Curiosities (2000) 26 exemplares
Eine Amerikanerin in Venedig (2000) 14 exemplares
Latin Lover. Von Männern und Frauen (1999) — Autor — 12 exemplares
A Refiner's Fire (2024) 7 exemplares
Cair de Amores (2017) 4 exemplares
Le Don du mensonge (2023) 4 exemplares
Death at La Fenice and Friends in High Places [video] — Original novel — 3 exemplares
Restos Mortais (2017) 3 exemplares
SOS Title Unknown 3 exemplares
Ölüm ve Hüküm 1 exemplar
Esclaus del desig 1 exemplar
Acqua alta 1 exemplar
18 titres 1 exemplar
Laske lapsukesed olla (2024) 1 exemplar
Odjur (2022) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Zebra-Striped Hearse (1962) — Posfácio, algumas edições528 exemplares
Brunetti's Venice: Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective (2008) — Introdução — 130 exemplares
A Venetian Reckoning and Dressed for Death [video] (2002) — Original novel — 8 exemplares
Fatal Remedies and A Noble Radiance [video] (1997) — Original novel — 5 exemplares
Plaatsen van misdaad : fragmenten uit dertien topthrillers (2004) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Quietly in Their Sleep and Acqua Alta [video] — Original novel — 3 exemplares
By Its Cover [video] (2018) — Original novel — 3 exemplares
Willful Behavior and Blood From a Stone [video] (2008) — Original novel — 3 exemplares
La Maga Abbandonata [sound recording] — Autor — 2 exemplares
Through a Glass, Darkly & Suffer the Little Children [video] (2011) — Original novel — 2 exemplares
Doctored Evidence and Uniform Justice [video] — Original novel — 2 exemplares
The Girl of His Dreams and About Face [video] (2013) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Acqua Alta and Death at La Fenice [video] (2004) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Friends in High Places and A Sea of Troubles [video] (2006) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
Quietly in Their Sleep and Uniform Justice [video] (2005) — Original novels — 1 exemplar
Death in a Strange Country and Doctored Evidence [video] (2006) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
About Face [video] (2012) — Original novel — 1 exemplar
A Question of Belief & Drawing Conclusions [video] (2014) — Original novel — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1942
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Locais de residência
Venècia, Véneto, Itàlia
Ocupações
professor (Literature)
novelist
Agente
Diogenes Verlag, Zürich

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Donna Leon has lived in Venice for about 30 years. She was a lecturer in English Literature for the University of Maryland University College-Europe in Italy, and then a professor at the American military base of Vicenza. She stopped teaching to concentrate on writing and other cultural activities, especially Baroque music.

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Discussions

La Serenissima & Dordogne Mystery Read Along em 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (Janeiro 2022)
La Serenissima & Dordogne Mystery Read Along em 75 Books Challenge for 2020 (Janeiro 2021)

Críticas

In November 2003, a suicide bomber in Nasiriyah, Iraq explodes a truck outside an allied forces military compound that kills 18 Italian servicemembers. That act represents the largest Italian military disaster since World War II and sends the country into a period of deep mourning. Desperate to find a hero in the tragedy, military and political officials settle on a single man—an officer in the Carabinieri deployed at the base—who appears to have risked his life to save two others. However, that appearance proves to be deceptive, and the man soon fades from the collective memory. Twenty years later, modern day Venice is beset with the damaging and violent conflict between rival groups of under-aged youths—baby gangs, they are called—and when one of the gang members turns out to be the son of the Hero of Nasiriyah, it sets off a chain of events that involves mayhem such as blackmail, various physical assaults, arson, and the destruction of ancient artifacts. In A Refiner’s Fire, we see this story unfold and learn how Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleagues at the Venice Questura resolve things.

For me, the real pleasure in reading a new Brunetti novel lies less with the details of the mystery at the heart of the story and more with the incredible sense of time and place that the author creates. Indeed, as has been the case in so many of the previous volumes in this series, the city of Venice—with both its incomparable beauty and its many warts— once again becomes the main focus. Leon’s descriptions of the city as it passes through the changing seasons are simply stunning and so evocative that, for readers familiar with La Serenissima, it is easy to follow along in the footsteps of the people as they go about their daily lives. Beyond that, each new book brings us back in touch with what are by now a beloved collection of characters, starting with Brunetti and his wife Paola, as well as Brunetti’s trusted associates Claudia Griffoni, Enzo Bocchese, and Signorina Elettra in this tale.

As to the actual plot of A Refiner’s Fire, I enjoyed the historical basis for the story, which was a more pronounced feature here than in most of the books that have come before it. The author does a nice job of weaving harrowing facts from the past with some creative modern fictional elements to make a compelling narrative in which the myriad pieces fit together quite nicely. My only quibble (if that is even the right word to use) would be that the ending felt a little rushed given the elaborate set up that preceded it and that not all the plotlines seemed to be fully resolved. Also, while I have always appreciated the thoughtful and allusive way in which Leon chooses the titles for these novels, I thought that this one—with its apparent Biblical reference—was particularly obscure and left me wondering until the very end how it tied into the story. Those minor points aside, this was an extremely satisfying reading experience from a talented author who, having now produced 33 volumes in this series, remains at the top of her game.
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browner56 | Mar 10, 2024 |
An excellent procedural. The mystery at the center unfolded gradually and naturally. The commissario at the center of the story was a fairly complex character and the hints of day to day life in Venice were
Great.Especially enjoyed the resolution
 
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cspiwak | 128 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
The Venice setting enriches these stories, but it’s the very solid plots and character studies that really make them worth reading…. This one studies family, politics, the military and more and delivers emotional storytelling as well
 
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cspiwak | 35 outras críticas | Mar 6, 2024 |
This is my first look at the Brunetti series, and I enjoyed it. I'm not sure, though, whether it's because the writing smoothly carried me along, or because I liked Brunetti as a character, or because at the center of mystery are rare books. So I'll try another one sometime. Is this really the 23rd in the series?!
A few favorite passages:
He thought of a story, surely apocryphal, he had once heard about some American movie star - was it Jean Harlow? It was said that when she was given a book for her birthday, she unwrapped it and looked at it, then said, 'A book? I have a book.'
The sun had been crawling across the floor as they sat there, and it now touched the soles of her feet stretched on the table in front of the sofa. She slid down and stretched them farther, wiggling them in the sunlight. 'Oh, that feels good,' she sighed.
Paola obviously had kept some text secreted about her person or under the cushion where she sat, left there in the event that life presented her with the necessity of spending three minutes with nothing to read.
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Estatísticas

Obras
75
Also by
19
Membros
40,597
Popularidade
#433
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
1,464
ISBN
1,757
Línguas
25
Marcado como favorito
94

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