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| Original Title: | Quietly in Their Sleep |
| ISBN: | 033034949X (ISBN13: 9780330349499) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Commissario Brunetti #6 |
| Setting: | Venice(Italy) |
Donna Leon
Paperback | Pages: 310 pages Rating: 3.91 | 5736 Users | 430 Reviews
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3,5 starsCommissario Guido Brunetti’s latest “case” in the 6th book in Commissario Brunetti Series by Donna Leon, starts off with a visit to his office by a young woman, who he doesn’t recognize but seems familiar to him, claiming that she suspects that several patients who had died unexpectedly and odd circumstances in the nursing home she had previously worked at. She thinks that their deaths may be related to their fortunes being left to the home and the church and not their heirs.
Without any proof of a crime being committed, Brunetti tells her that he will try to find out more about the home. But when she’s left in a coma after injured by a hit and run car, he decides to investigate and look closer to her allegations.
What he discovers is something more and worse than he had thought.
This story deals with so many issues. The Catholic church, greed, corruption, Opus Dei, the handling of priests who have been found guilty of sexual abuse of children and cover-ups.
I find the author’s views on the dynamics of religion in Italy really interesting. One of the parts in the story , where Brunetti and Paola are discussing Chiara’s school report results and the low marks she obtained for religion instructions, and her feelings about that subject….
“I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.” Chiara
And how much value we place on material things. Brunetti and Vianello visit one of the deceased patient’s son and heir, who is more interested in what he owns and has inherited than about his dead mother. And this quote is so true in our society….
““We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them.What makes this series so special are the characters and the sense of place that is Venice.
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Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.”
An enjoyable read.
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| Title | : | The Death of Faith (Commissario Brunetti #6) |
| Author | : | Donna Leon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 310 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2006 by Pan Books (UK) (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Cultural. Italy. Fiction. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 5736 Users | 430 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books The Death of Faith (Commissario Brunetti #6)
I was very disappointed in book #6 from the Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon. This appears to be Ms. Leon's two headed attack on religion. I am not Catholic. The focus appears to be on the Catholic Church but I think it goes much deeper then that. All the characters in the book who are likeable: Guido, his wife and kids, his sargeant and his boss' assistant all voice their negative views about religion. There is no balance as there would be in the real world. A nun tells Commissiaro BrunettiAs far as mysteries go, I found The Death of Faith to be one of the more complex books in the series by author Donna Leon. The story leads the reader through a winding road of victims, suspects and motives, and comes to the usual surprising ending. Not all questions are answered, which makes the story even more mysterious.
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venetian police is approached by a young woman who looks familiar but whom he can't quite place and who wants to tell him about what she fears has been happening at a nursing home where she recently worked. Only after she identifies herself does he realize that she was a nun who once cared for his mother at the nursing home where she is a patient. She had subsequently left that nursing home and worked at another, the one about which she is reporting to him. But
This is the 6th book in the series and I have come to realize that Donna Leon's authorship is very uneven. The previous book, Aqua Alta, is by far the best of the 6 that I have read so it was somewhat of a disappointment to pick up this book and think that it would be of the same quality and it not measuring up at all.The book starts out with a nun coming in to Brunetti's office basically telling him nothing more than that she has left her order because they do not join her in her belief that
I did enjoy this novel. However, I wasnt clear on how the many different threads were resolved. This leaves me feeling like I need to reread the last several chapters! Thus, 3.5⭐ is rounded up to 4 ⭐I am already looking forward to my next Donna Leon read!!
Religion, just like many other things can be used in a malignant way to justifyPersonal needs. Old people dying in nursing homes staffed by sisters and girl children taught by corrupt priests occasion the efforts of the commissario.
First Sentence: Brunetti sat at his desk and stared at his feet.Commissario Guido Brunetti has a young woman come to his office. She seems familiar, but he doesnt recognize her until she clarifies that the last time he saw her, she was a nun and a nursing sister. She has left the convent suspecting that several of her patients died unexpectedly and, perhaps, not of natural causes. After being hit by a car and left in a coma, Brunetti decides to investigate even though he can find no clear crime
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