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Shadow and Light de Jonathan Rabb

Shadow and Light

Autor Jonathan Rabb
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2010

Berlin, 1927. When a studio executive at Ufa -- the home of German Cinema -- is found dead in his office bathtub, Herr Kriminal-Oberkommissar Nikolai Hoffner is determined to uncover the truth behind what he firmly believes is murder. With the help of Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, the leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin, Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts, and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. "Shadow and Light" is an electrifying thriller set in a darkly beautiful Berlin poised on the edge of destruction.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312429416
ISBN-10: 031242941X
Pagini: 383
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Picador USA

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"A darkly gripping, intellectually sophisticated new mystery." --"The Boston Globe""Rabb has a gift for capturing the intoxicating -- and toxic -- atmosphere of post-World War I Berlin. . . . His gallery of real-life characters, scattered across the fictional landscape, lends a touch of Ragtime-like fun." --"The New York Times Book Review""An innovative historical detective mystery . . . gives a haunting, dark portrait of Berlin society in the Weimar Republic." --"The Denver Post""Rabb's brilliantly plotted narrative leads his detective past dead ends and red herrings to the discovery that much more is at stake. . . . We can expect some spectacular explosions when next we meet his wounded detective in his beloved, battered city." --The Washington Post"An ambitious historical mystery novel that beautifully blends escapist adventure with a surprisingly compelling underpinning of spiritual and moral ambiguity . . . terrific reading." --"The Boston Globe" "Atmosphere is all in Jonathan Rabb's brooding new mystery . . . brilliantly plotted narrative . . . Rabb writes so well and the mood he creates is so haunting." -- Wendy Smith, "The Washington Post " "Set in 1927 Germany, Rabb's superb sequel to "Rosa" correlates the advent of talking movies with the rise of Nazism. When Kriminal-Oberkommisar Nikolai Hoffner investigates the apparent suicide of an Ufa film studio executive, the trail leads the Berlin policeman to the sex and drug trade as well as to the National Socialist German Workers Party's local leader, Joseph Goebbels. Working with Helen Coyle, an attractive American talent agent for MGM, Hoffner learns how cutthroat the picture business is. Rumors of films with sound threaten to change the industry. "Without sound, all you have is shadow and light," an inventor tells Hoffner. With sound, movies can do a lot more than entertain, as soon to be shown by Nazi propaganda films and newsreels. Rabb's meticulous research brings to life a corrupte

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When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, Hoffner finds this case taking him into the treacherous underbelly of Berlin.

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Jonathan Rabb