About Face: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 18)

Author: Leon, Donna

Brand: Atlantic Monthly Press

Number Of Pages: 272

Details: Donna Leon€™s eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon€™s best-selling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also violent crime and political corruption.In About Face, Leon returns to one of her signature subjects: the environment, which has reached a crisis in Italy. Incinerators across the south of Italy are at full capacity, burning who-knows-what and releasing unacceptable levels of dangerous air pollutants, while in Naples, enormous garbage piles grow in the streets. In Venice, with the polluted waters of the canals and a major chemical complex across the lagoon, the issue is never far from the fore.Environmental concerns become significant in Brunetti€™s work when an investigator from the Carabiniere, looking int

EAN: 9780802118967

Release Date: 01-04-2009

Languages: English

Item Note: Book is in good condition! The dust jacket has minimal wear and the pages look great. This is a former library book and there is a "withdrawn" stamp on the first and last pages.

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Hardcover