The book: Einaudi edition
Year
Pages - Softcover
Translation Margherita Botto
The plot:
Adamsberg, with the priceless Danglard, is a bit 'bored, England for a meeting of the Greater Europe police: it is no less than "harmonizing migration flows "with colleagues from twenty-three countries. But where there is Adamsberg anything can happen. And the discovery of the seventeen shoes - or as he says the precise Danglard," seventeen feet, eight pairs and a single foot "- pushes our "digger cloud" to walk another Europe: one in which nearly three hundred years after Dracula's stock has continued to haunt the world. In London, the surroundings of Hauts-de-Seine and Serbia, through the "black tunnel "that leads to the tomb of Peter Plogojowitz, exhumed in 1725 on suspicion of being a vampire, the police investigation is interwoven exploration of that continent which is unknown human folly. Humor, visionary imagination, erudition, twists, dialogues sensational, the ability to investigate deeper into the recesses of the soul come together in a plot where Adamsberg comes to terms with the myth and the reality of the vampire. And with a past that seems to come back to ruin his life.
A set of thriller, fantasy and superstition. This is the mix of police investigation in which Vargas is mixed and intrinsic to another non-defined contours, where vampire teeth and pallets going to overshadow a story in itself unclear.
For now, the book that I am equally convinced of this writer that, until now, I was not disappointed at all, although the style is very delicate and "feminine" in telling the facts, even bloody.
As always, Vargas focuses often to describe the characters, their habits and their flaws. It makes us delve into the psychology of the subjects, to bring the hand to empathize with them, and think of their actions.
a couple of times I've lost the thread of the story, but I think for my personal aversion to fantasy ..
If I had to cast a vote, it would not be very high ... 2.5 / 5
The writer:
Born in Paris in 1957, writes under a pseudonym. The real name is Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau. archeozeologia Researcher at the French national center for scientific research. She has written screenplays for television
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