Daughter of Silence
by Morris L. West
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When a young woman murders the mayor in a quiet Tuscan village, the court case reveals a conspiracy of silence in a small community.Tags
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While the legal case and its psychiatric aspects were complex, and the historical background of the case was interesting, the characters were not very likable. They definitely were not only flawed, but pretty wretched humans, with the possible exception of Professor Galuzzi, Ninette Lachaise, and Fra Bonifacio. Like the main character, Peter Landon, I found myself becoming impatient and struggling to care. Still, the book was well-written, with evocative descriptions and sound research unpinning the legal and psychiatric discussions and strategies.
While the legal case and its psychiatric aspects were complex, and the historical background of the case was interesting, the characters were not very likable. They definitely were not only flawed, but pretty wretched humans, with the possible exception of Professor Galuzzi, Ninette Lachaise, and Fra Bonifacio. Like the main character, Peter Landon, I found myself becoming impatient and struggling to care. Still, the book was well-written, with evocative descriptions and sound research unpinning the legal and psychiatric discussions and strategies.
I have the Pan edition. Different cover to this one. Published in 1961. Read it but brought home to re-read again sometime.
El escenario de la novela es Italia, y tiene dos principales protagonistas: el amor, con su dignidad, su corrupción y sus pasionales intrigas, y la justicia humana. Y estos dos protagonistas dan el tema al autor: la tensión pasional, que alcanza dimensiones históricas en un país y en un ambiente donde hasta el vino “se endulza con la sangre de antiguos sacrificios”.Ana Albertini, una mujer joven y hermosa, llega a un pueblo de Italia con un fin: matar al alcalde. La calma del lugar es perturbada por este crimen, aparentemente inexplicable, y por el juicio a Ana.
Nov 16, 2022Spanish
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Nov 17, 2020Catalan
EN HIJA DEL SILENCIO , SE NOS OFRECE UN WEST EN LA PLENITUD DE SUS FORMAQS CON SU CARACTERISTICO DOMINIO DEL SER HUMANHHO COLOCADO EN SITUACIONES DE EXTREMA EXIGENCIA.
Nov 12, 2007Spanish
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Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Carlo Rienzi
- Important places
- Tuscany, Italy
- First words
- It was a bright noon, high summer, in the upland valleys of Tuscany: a torpid time, a season of dust and languor, of stripped flax and larks in the wheat stubble, and the new wines coming to vintage in the country of the Elde... (show all)r Gods.
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