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Loading... Calling Out for You (2000)by Karin Fossum
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) A Noiva Indiana Ă© um policial escrito pela norueguesa Karin Fossum e foi traduzido por JosĂ© Mendonça da Cruz. Ganhou o prĂ©mio do Jornal Los Angels Times, na categoria de policial/thriller e foi finalista do Gold and Silver Dagger Award. GĂĽnder Jomann, um norueguĂŞs solteirĂŁo, vendedor de máquinas agrĂcolas, parte para a ĂŤndia Ă procura de uma noiva. Lá, no cafĂ© 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 caracterĂsticas fĂsicas nĂŁo totalmente perfeitas, como os dentes (que poderia vir a corrigir depois), ela Ă© a mulher com quem quer casar. Por seu turno, Poona deixa-se encantar por ele, apesar de “nĂŁo ter muito cabelo e nĂŁo ser rápido a agir ou a pensar”, mas vĂŞ nos seus olhos azuis uma calma e sinceridade de homem bom que a cativa, possui “mĂŁos 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 Ă© mais do que um policial, tem tambĂ©m algo de existencialista, de análise do ser humano, dos seus limites, convidando-nos a uma reflexĂŁo, levando-nos a indagar-nos sobre as razões de determinadas condutas. NĂŁo terá sido tambĂ©m a pobreza em que vivia Poona, que já sĂł tinha um irmĂŁo na ĂŤndia e ainda mais pobre do que ela, que a levaria a aceitar casar-se com GĂĽnder? Indagações Ă parte, acabam por casar na ĂŤndia. GĂĽnder regressa antes Ă Noruega, visto que Poona tem ainda alguns assuntos a resolver. E fica marcado o dia do seu regresso, pelo qual GĂĽnder aguarda com muita ansiedade e alegria. PorĂ©m, quando está para ir buscar a sua esposa ao aeroporto, recebe um telefonema que o impede de o fazer. A irmĂŁ, Marie, sofreu um terrĂvel acidente de viação e encontra-se em coma no hospital. Estando o cunhado fora, teria de ser GĂĽnder a ir ter com a irmĂŁ. Fica em pânico. Com poucos amigos, nĂŁo sabia como haveria de contornar esta situação e nĂŁo podia sair de ao pĂ© da irmĂŁ. Pede, entĂŁo, 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 indĂcios levam a um jovem, Gøran. Mas terá sido mesmo ele? Estas dĂşvidas acompanham-nos atĂ© 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. NĂŁo 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 Ă© certo, Ă© que nĂŁo conhecemos profundamente ninguĂ©m. E qualquer um, por motivos diferentes ou atĂ© sem qualquer motivo aparente, poderia ter sido o assassino. Aconselho vivamente a leitura deste livro. 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. 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. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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. No library descriptions found.
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