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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Missing Italian Girldi Barbara Corrado Pope
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I wish I’d read the two previous books before starting this one. They are now on my to read list and then I plan to reread this one. The description of end of century Paris is detailed. The characters are interesting and endear themselves to you through their struggles. An interesting insight into the oppression of women. Overall, a good read. ( ) I almost gave this book 4 stars instead of 5, The reason is the anarchists and socialists portrayed in the book are virtually all kindhearted to a fault. Now I am sure some of them were but many of them were not. Once I overcame this and just read the story for what it was -I loved it. It is about - guess what - a missing girl and an upper class woman's quest to find her on the mean streets of Paris in the late 1800's when there was revolution in the air of sorts.Claire, the upper class woman must overcome biases against women and the poor to find the girl. The plot is captivating, the setting is well drawn and the characters are nicely developed. A must read for the historical mystery lover.
Paris, 1897: France is bursting with Republican fervor and a plethora of initiatives for the promotion of so-called social equality. Enter Clarie Martin, wife, mother and schoolteacher. When one of the lycée's "charwomen," asks Clarie to help find her two missing daughters, she wonders: "Where were all those Republican men with their high-flown rhetoric about equality and justice when it came to these girls?" Pope plots Clarie's search with precision and restraint. The true draw here, though, is not so much the mystery as its portrait of women—and their not-so-equal rights—at the turn of the last century. Clarie is a wonderfully engaging heroine. Her love for her family, her intellectual integrity and her stubbornness prove that even in the face of senseless limitations, it's possible to find joy, truth—and even oneself. Appartiene alle SerieBernard Martin (3)
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Historical Fiction.
HTML: In the third crime novel in the acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist comrades. They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin (last seen in Cezanne's Quarry and The Blood of Lorraine) on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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