God's dog (Dedalus Europe) - Softcover

Marani, Diego

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909232513 ISBN 13: 9781909232518

Verlag: Dedalus Ltd, 2013

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'Landry knows her man inside out, having previously given us English versions of Marani's New Finnish Grammar & The Last of the Vostyachs and she imparts a cool detachment to his catechetical Utopia that lifts it above the merely satirical and makes Domingo's hunt genuinely exciting.' The Tablet

'The good news is that this is the first of a series, and the second has already been written. Heretic that I am, I can't wait.' Nick Lezard's Choice in The Guardian

It is the background of an aggressively intolerant religious totalitarian state that gives the book its main interest and, for some readers at least, its real appeal. The sophisticated cover features a portrait of St Dominic by Bellini. The book is handsomely produced.' P. Grosset Clerical Detective

"Landry knows her man inside out, having previously given us English versions of Marani's New Finnish Grammar & The Last of the Vostyachs and she imparts a cool detachment to his catechetical Utopia that lifts it above the merely satirical and makes Domingo's hunt genuinely exciting." -- The Tablet

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God's Dog is Diego Marani's first detective novel, introducing Domingo Salazar, a Dominican monk, who is a Vatican secret agent. Italy is now a theocratic state ruled by the Vatican, whose secret agents are dedicated to root out non-believers and heretics. The sanctity of life is being challenged by a cell of dissidents helping sufferers commit euthanasia. 'The crime genre is thronging with honest, likeable cops working within corrupt regimes but the writers of such novels give themselves a get-out-of-jail-free card by allowing us to sympathise with their conflicted protagonists, chafing against their brutal paymasters. Marani (in Judith Landry's able translation), however, is more audacious, granting his anti-hero a terrifying religious fervour, unquestioning of the status quo. What's more, he is an intelligent, intuitive investigator, skilled at using psychology against his victims. Which is what makes the success of this energetic and trenchant novel all the more impressive, however reptilian its protagonist. Marani's church authorities here propose an interfaith movement called "Bible-Koranism" designed to stamp out secularism; as Salazar calmly explains this historical necessity to non-believers, the reader may hear Marani's warning voice: be aware!' Barry Forshaw in The Independent 'Here, though the terse economy of detective prose works to move events briskly to their violent conclusion. In this Marani is very well served again by Judith Landry's excellent English translation, which captures both the novel's nod to generic conventions of style, and its stranger little flourishes and apercus.' Bharat Tandon in The Times Literary Supplement

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• Verlag: Dedalus Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909232513
• ISBN 13: 9781909232518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166