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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fish, Blood and Bone (2002)di Leslie Forbes
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  moukayedr | Sep 5, 2021 |   The story itself is confusing, with a plethora of characters (all somehow related), a plotline that takes Claire through Calcutta and Darjeeling and on an adventurous trek into Tibet, and a dizzying array of subplots and subterfuges. Only adding to the confusion are the unpredictable switches from third person to first person and the discordant flashbacks, not to mention the constantly changing locales. But I have to applaud the intense description of the trek across Bhutan and Tibet to reach Nepal, and I must admit that one of the most intriguing parts of the narrative is the long middle section set in 19th century India, told mainly through journal entries and flashbacks. Still, it was quite impossible to follow or make much sense of it all, and I was flabbergasted when the identity of Jack the Ripper was revealed to be one of Claire’s ancestors. It feels like an opium haze of a journey, leaving the reader with no true sense of what is real and what is hallucination. (  ) sturlington | Oct 27, 2011 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fish, Blood and Bone is Leslie Forbes' brilliant second novel. When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London's East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it will be a slice of the English dream. But after the brutal murder of her best friend Sally Rivers, Claire learns that her inheritance involves more than she wanted or bargained for. Desperate to find a motive for her friend¿s death, or at least someone to blame for the things that can befall ordinary people, Claire is impelled to join a scientific expedition led by her cousin Jack Ironstone, one of the men she suspects of being responsible for Sally's murder. Her journey leads from Jack the Ripper's claustrophobic Whitechapel to the Fleetwoods' murky roots in India's opium trade and the wild 'paradise' valleys of Tibet. It parallels a route taken during Britain's great 19th-century triangulation of the Himalayas by Claire's distant relative Magda Ironstone and a mysterious Indian botanist. As Claire painstakingly reconstructs a triangular love affair she imagines took place, the contemporary story is overtaken to deadly effect by Magda's. Written with all the sophistication and intelligence that was so dazzling in Bombay Ice, in Fish, Blood and Bone Leslie Forbes weaves together a mysterious story of three families, a love affair and a series of murders into a wonderfully haunting novel about hidden pasts and forgotten crimes. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (2.72)
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For one it is a mystery of a murder and an exploration of a complex family history. For another it is a testimony on man's abuse to the earth whether in the name of science or personal gain.
Clair Fleetwood is a forensic photographer, who inherits an old house in London's East End. Because of her almost nomadic childhood she yearns to put down roots and relishes the exploration of her family connection to Magda Ironstone (born Fleetwood) who founded the house and had very close connection to the family business in India.
She starts up a garden in the backyard of the old house with the help of her friend Sally, but Sally is murdered in the same backyard under mysterious circumstances.
Driven by grief and curiosity Claire ends up on an expedition in the remote parts of Tibet, looking for a green poppy that was described at length in some of Magda's papers and was coveted for its miraculous medicinal properties.
On this journey Claire discovers much more than she had bargained for. (