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Review #1
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A fine novel–less classic crime story and more an elegy for a man and a place. The latter theme is common in Donna Leon’s previous Commissario Brunetti books as she uses them to bring to the fore the environmental and political plagues that her adopted city, Venice, continues to endure.
In “Earthly Remains”, Brunetti is on a short sabbatical from the suffocating venality and other criminal behavior that he witnesses every day on the job. He retreats to an island in the Venetian lagoon north of the city, and finds instant peace and comfort in the rural isolation, physical exercise (cycling and rowing) and bonding with an old family friend, Davide Casati, who turns out to be the caretaker of the villa where Brunetti is in residence for two weeks.
A big, and fully enjoyable chunk of this novel, is focused on Brunetti’s relationship with Casati and their time spent on the waters of the lagoon, observing wild life and the geographic marvels of the place. When Casati goes missing one morning, the story takes a turn toward the dark, and the rest of the novel is an investigation of the disappearance and eventually the reasons for Casati’s victimization.
The author’s concerns about the pernicious elements eating away at Venice and its environment are eloquently stated (and not new) and her frustration (voiced through Brunetti) with the avariciousness and lack of self-restraint by Italian industry and the very slow grinding of the gears of the Italian justice system are spelled out in detail in “Earthly Remains”. This will offend some readers whose faith in unrestrained capitalism is still intact. A visit to Meghara, the noxious industrial suburb of Venice, would certainly clarify what author Leon is referring to for anyone.
This is one of Leon’s best Brunetti books, in my opinion. It’s more personal and starkly heartfelt by an observer who is watching the gradual destruction of the city and region that she loves
Review #2
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The usual prose and pace with descriptions and depictions that show the beauty and despair of a centuries old city. Locked in time but forced to participate in the modern world, Venice is a city of wonder with ancient methods of crime and avarice as are all cities.
Commission Brunetti has his usual trouble getting his job done past the eyes of his superiors more content with protecting their positions and pensions. I have read many of Donna Leon’s books and have enjoyed the pace of the stories that include the descriptions of meals down to the garnish and accoutrements. She has great ability to weave a tale into a continuous guide book on Venice.
I encourage all first time readers of Donna Leon to start with another book to get to know Commissario Brunetti and his surrounding supporting characters. A mystery needs to have a satisfying ending, but for me this book misses the mark. It doesn’t have to be a happy ending, or even one that the reader likes. It has to leave you feeling satisfied that the events and plot have reasonably been concluded. A book can leave you in suspense, but not on a country road, lost with lights out.
Two crimes are investigated by Commissario Brunetti. One is interrupted and really never returned to by the book. This is a crime of date rape that is shocking to the reader. Brunetti’s involvement is interrupted in the plot’s turning point, but was a significant part of the first portion of the book. A minimal after point is mentioned, but not enough to satisfy the reader even if the conclusion is not a happy one. We need more on the story to pay back the investment given in the first portion of the book.
Review #3
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I have read every one of the Commissario Brunetti books and loved them all. This one, however, is very different. In this book, Brunetti is not trying to solve a murder – there is no body until near the end of the book. Instead, Donna Leon waxes poetic about the beauty of nature, its effect on Brunetti who is on sabbatical and the death of the earth as exemplified by the pollution of the laguna, the death of the bees and finally the death of his friend Casati.
Descriptions such as “Brunetti awoke in Paradise. Birds chirped, the sun prised with rosy fingers at his eyelids . . .” or “The air was close and humid and it seemed hotter than outside, but at least the roof had put an end to the suns flagellations.” and “As they walked away from the dock, the sun did its best to pound them into the ground . . .” are some of the poetic descriptions of Brunetti coping with the unrelenting heat of summer in Venice. Though the story does not involve climate change, I wonder if some of the descriptions of the extraordinary heat are not related to it. The plot revolves around the dumping in the laguna of metal barrels of deadly chemicals used in manufacturing on the island of Marghere which are still being cleaned up even as we read about them in this novel. One can feel the author’s frustration with the Italian government and its slow and corruption-laden addressing of this problem. The bees are dying and Brunetti’s friend knows why. I’ll leave it here for the reader to discover.
Review #4
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I have been a fan of Donna Leon’s Venetian detective stories for a long time, but if Earthly Remains is anything to go by, the well is running dry. The plot is tissue thin, the ending abrupt and without any resolution, and there is a great deal of padding: endless rowing about in the lagoon. And I found Brunetti’s response to his junior officer’s threat to hit a suspect unbelievable; surely an officer of the Commissario’s experience would simply have told the younger man to sit down!
So both beginning and ending are disappointing, and the middle bit is repititious. I did get the point about industrial pollution, but sadly the book is just not up to her usual standard.
Review #5
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While he is interviewing a powerful businessman who is reported to have given some pills to a young girl who subsequently died Brunetti takes a strange course of action which has ramifications he could not have imagined. His actions and the interview itself cause him to question his own career and he takes leave to try and work out where his life is headed.
He decides to go and relax on the island of Sant’ Erasmo – one of the islands in the Venice Laguna – staying in a villa owned by his wife, Paola’s family. There he finds he is able to relax. He spends his time eating good food, rowing in the Laguna with Davide Casati. the villa’s caretaker. Then Davide goes missing following a violent storm Brunetti finds he must set aside his relaxation and investigate what happened.
This is a thoughtful and thought provoking mystery founded on the widespread corruption which underpins Venetian life at all levels. It also shows how simple pleasures ultimately last longer than the more sophisticated pleasures of modern society. I enjoyed reading about bees and the wild life in the Laguna and about the effects of hard physical activity can unravel the knots in one’s mind. I felt this book gave more insights than usual into Brunetti’s character.
Some of the later books in this series have contained, for me, too much of an environmental message but in this one Donna Leon has got the balance right I think and I didn’t feel that this was a mystery wrapped up in a message. It is much more a mystery with environmental aspects affecting individuals. It does show Venetian life from the inside and brings this unique city vividly to life.
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