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Carregando... The Land of Dreams (2008)de Vidar Sundstøl
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) janerawoof | Oct 20, 2020 |  ) kerryp | Jul 4, 2020 | My first impression of this book is place dropping - between Old Dutch Potato Chips, Minnesota Vikings, and Two Harbors - everything needed to place the story in Northern Minnesota. At times, its like the author is using a hammer to yell "THIS IS MINNESOTA". As for the story itself, the author manages to write the feel of the area - residents who are of Scandinavian origins, reticent in words, distrusting of outsiders. The book is written by a Norwegian, and has direct ties back to Norway in an Investigator from Norway sent by the Government to investigate the death of a citizen. There is a secondary story that follow a murder set in settler times - a medicine man disappears and his death goes mostly unnoticed. The author had done his research. Between modern day North Shore, and the history of the region from the first settlers, it makes for a history book as much as a mystery. Unfortunately, the large amount of information tends to drag at times, bringing down the whole story. The other problem is the main character, Lance Hansen, doesn't add much to the book. He's a leading character, but is mostly a stand in for the events happening around him. I think he's written correct for the region, but he needs a greater inner voice to make him interesting. (  ) TheDivineOomba | Oct 15, 2019 | This book is less of a gripping crime thriller than a meditation on the ways one's sense of self is intertwined with place, history, and folk. And that's fine -- in fact, I'm probably more inclined to enjoy the latter than the former. But this type of novel demands evocative writing, and I found the prose to be anything but. It's bland to the point of banal. We are treated to excruciatingly detailed descriptions of everything the characters do, whether or not those descriptions do anything to advance either the plot or the aforementioned philosophical questions. We get conversations between characters that manage to be both stilted and painfully mundane all at once. And we get the trope of having the protagonists' every emotion spelled out for us in detail, which I thought was the first thing any aspiring writer learned not to do. So this is where I wonder if something was lost in translation. If I was more taken with the prose, I could have enjoyed the book (though it certainly still has moments where it is repetitive or forced). Maybe it works better in the native Norwegian. (  ) iangreenleaf | Sep 19, 2017 | Set in Minnesota, on the shores of Lake Superior, the book looks at the lives of the local communities; both the local people who are mainly of scandanavian origin and the native Ojibway. A brutal murder occurs in which a Norwegian man is beaten to death and the main suspect is his travelling companion. Investigated by Nyland, a police officer from Norway, the murder forms a backdrop to the bigger themes. The main character is Lance Hansen, a park officer, who finds the body and is interested in local history. He becomes obsessed with the disappearance of an Ojibway man a hundred years ago and the potential link to his family. Similarly he realises through the course of the book that the murder of the Norwegian may be solved close to home. Beautifully written (and translated) this book explores the themes of family and culture and is less of a crime novel and more of a literary novel. It makes one think and that is no bad thing - a very good book. (  ) pluckedhighbrow | Jun 26, 2017 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl's critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the region's small towns and deep forests. The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has a nearly all-consuming passion for local genealogy and history. But his quiet routines are shattered one morning when he comes upon a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior. Another Norwegian man is nearby; covered in blood and staring out across the lake, he can only utter the word kjærlighet. Love. FBI agent Bob Lecuyer is assigned to the case, as is Norwegian detective Eirik Nyland, who is immediately flown in from Oslo. As the investigation progresses, Lance begins to make shocking discoveriesâ??including one that involves the murder of an Ojibwe man on the very same site more than one hundred years ago. As Lance digs into two murders separated by a century, he finds the clues may in fact lead toward someone much closer to home than he could have imagined. The Land of Dreams is the opening chapter in a sweeping chronicle from one of Norway's leading crime writersâ??a portrait of an extraordinary landscape, an exploration of hidden traumas and paths of silence that trouble history, and a haunting study in guilt and the bonds of Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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