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The Indian Bride (Inspector Sejer) (original 2000; edition 2008)

by Karin Fossum (Author), Charlotte Barslund (Translator)

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When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocentâ??including the cafĂ© owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a chief witness, and the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.

Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.… (more)

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Title:The Indian Bride (Inspector Sejer)
Authors:Karin Fossum (Author)
Other authors:Charlotte Barslund (Translator)
Info:Harcourt (2008), 310 pages
Collections:Read 2016, Read But Not Owned
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Tags:Collections Only, Fiction, Library Book, Scandicrime, Read 2016

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Calling Out for You by Karin Fossum (2000)

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This was a good installment in the Inspecter Sejer mystery series, in which an Indian woman is murdered upon her arrival to a small town in Norway. It is tense and atmospheric, but I have mixed feelings about the way the story ends. ( )
  mathgirl40 | Oct 3, 2021 |
The grimmest of murders and the saddest of tales. Fossum's ability to evoke a landscape, a mood and a moment is exquisite. Absolutely best quality murder mystery skillfully constructed and executed. ( )
  Stephen.Lawton | Aug 7, 2021 |
A Noiva Indiana é um policial escrito pela norueguesa Karin Fossum e foi traduzido por José Mendonça da Cruz. Ganhou o prémio do Jornal Los Angels Times, na categoria de policial/thriller e foi finalista do Gold and Silver Dagger Award.

Günder Jomann, um norueguês solteirão, vendedor de máquinas agrícolas, parte para a Índia à procura de uma noiva. Lá, no café restaurante que frequenta desde o primeiro dia e onde regressa todos os dias, conhece Poona, uma empregada de mesa e acredita que, ainda que com algumas características físicas não totalmente perfeitas, como os dentes (que poderia vir a corrigir depois), ela é a mulher com quem quer casar. Por seu turno, Poona deixa-se encantar por ele, apesar de “não ter muito cabelo e não ser rápido a agir ou a pensar”, mas vê nos seus olhos azuis uma calma e sinceridade de homem bom que a cativa, possui “mãos fortes e acolhedoras” e dele exala uma “força tranquila”. Acredita que será feliz com ele, que terá uma vida boa. Neste momento, podemos ver que este livro é mais do que um policial, tem também algo de existencialista, de análise do ser humano, dos seus limites, convidando-nos a uma reflexão, levando-nos a indagar-nos sobre as razões de determinadas condutas. Não terá sido também a pobreza em que vivia Poona, que já só tinha um irmão na Índia e ainda mais pobre do que ela, que a levaria a aceitar casar-se com Günder? Indagações à parte, acabam por casar na Índia. Günder regressa antes à Noruega, visto que Poona tem ainda alguns assuntos a resolver. E fica marcado o dia do seu regresso, pelo qual Günder aguarda com muita ansiedade e alegria.

Porém, quando está para ir buscar a sua esposa ao aeroporto, recebe um telefonema que o impede de o fazer. A irmã, Marie, sofreu um terrível acidente de viação e encontra-se em coma no hospital. Estando o cunhado fora, teria de ser Günder a ir ter com a irmã. Fica em pânico. Com poucos amigos, não sabia como haveria de contornar esta situação e não podia sair de ao pé da irmã. Pede, então, a um taxista conhecido que a vá buscar, dando-lhe todos os pormenores para que ele a encontre.

Tal nĂŁo sucede, ele nĂŁo a encontra.

Mais tarde, Ă© encontrada uma indiana morta e desfigurada a escassos metros da casa de GĂĽnder.

Quem poderia ter cometido uma atrocidade daquelas?

Todos os indícios levam a um jovem, Gøran. Mas terá sido mesmo ele? Estas dúvidas acompanham-nos até ao fim.

É um livro surpreendente, bem escrito, com uma narrativa que prende, que desperta a curiosidade. A certa altura, vemo-nos incapazes de o largar. Não queremos perder nenhum pormenor da investigação do inspetor Konrad Sejer. Aos poucos, sentimo-nos habitantes de Elvestad, conhecemos (de vista) todos os seus moradores, alguns capazes de nos despertar mesmo raiva. Mas, o que é certo, é que não conhecemos profundamente ninguém. E qualquer um, por motivos diferentes ou até sem qualquer motivo aparente, poderia ter sido o assassino.

Aconselho vivamente a leitura deste livro. ( )
  Celiagil | Mar 24, 2021 |
I found this to be a very strange book & even stranger characters. The book was long & drawn out, difficult to hold my interest and with the exception of Poona, The Indian Bride, I wasn't invested in the characters, I didn't really like them.

A man goes to India to find a wife. He meets a woman waiting tables in a Tandoori restaurant & marries her. The day his wife is arriving from India, his sister is in a car accident and so he sends the local taxi to pick her up...

The taxi man can not find her, but a local woman picking mushrooms does; she finds Poona dead in a filed her face bashed in....

A young woman witnesses someone chasing Poona through the field and at first thinks it is a mutual sex game... From this point everything is confusing and when the book ends there are too many loose ends for my liking.

I won't be reading another in this series. ( )
  Auntie-Nanuuq | Jan 15, 2021 |
Calling Out for You by Norwegian author Karin Fossum is a police procedural that is part of her series featuring Inspector Konrad Sejer. Middle-aged, shy Gunder Jomann returns from India a changed and happy man as he has come home a married man. On the day that his bride is to arrive, his sister is involved in a terrible automobile crash and Gunder has to go to the hospital instead of the airport to greet his new wife. He sends his friend who is a taxi-driver in his place, but unfortunately his bride, Poona can’t be located. The next day it becomes known that a woman has been found, beaten and murdered and now lying in a meadow not far from Gunder’s house.

Inspector Sejer and his assistant, Jacob Skarre, work the case carefully and slowly gather as many details as they can. The crime, committed near the same village of Elvestad means that a spotlight is now placed on the town and it’s inhabitants. Although people are reluctant to become involved, a few come forward with information and eventually Sejer makes an arrest.

I found Calling Out for You to be both sinister and gripping. The author writes with intelligence and her measured writing and skilful plotting allows for offshoots of drama and occurrences that leave this case with a hazy, not quite finished feeling. Although I see that many people were annoyed by this ending, I found it refreshing and real that Sejer was involved in a case that wasn’t completely “open and shut”. This is an excellent series and each book that I have read is better than the last so it’s no surprise that with great anticipation, I immediately went and purchased the next book. ( )
  DeltaQueen50 | Aug 21, 2020 |
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When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocentâ??including the cafĂ© owner who knows too much, the girl who wants to be a chief witness, and the bodybuilder with no outlet for his terrible strength.

Another brilliantly conceived, dark novel from one of Europe's most successful crime writers.

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På en äng utanför Elvestad hittas en kvinna som mördats på ett synnerligen bestialiskt sätt. Dagen innan skulle Gunder Jomann ha hämtat sin nya hustru, Poona från Bombay i Indien, på flygplatsen. Men hans syster Marie råkar ut för en allvarlig bilolycka och eftersom han själv måste vaka på sjukhuset ber han en vän att hämta den efterlängtade hustrun. Men Poona dyker aldrig upp, varken på flygplatsen eller hemma hos Gunder. 
Kommissarie Konrad Sejer och hans assistent Skarre kopplas in på fallet som väcker upp starka känslor i det lilla samhället där alla tror sig vet allt om alla.
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