Two parallel stories. Baby gangs that meet in the streets of Venice just to fight and show who is stronger, and a man who was the hero of the 2003 bombing of the Italian Carabinieri headquarters in Nasiriyah. In the baby gang is the son of this man. Some elements of the past don’t add up, so Brunetti and Commissario Claudia Griffoni decide to get to the bottom of the truth. They discover the hypocrisy of politics and how justice can be distorted. No body found in an obscure Venice calle in this novel, but a lot of thought and immersion in the lives of the protagonists. Like every year, I love reading the new Donna Leon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What class are you in?\u2019 she asked. \u2018Second year of the Superiore.\u2019 \u2018Anything worth studying?\u2019 Her question surprised him, and he gave it some consideration before he said, \u2018Only maths.\u2019 That stopped Griffoni in her tracks. \u2018Maths?\u2019 When Orlando nodded, she asked, \u2018Why?\u2019 With no hesitation, he said, \u2018Because it\u2019s so clean.\u2019 She turned away from looking across at San Giorgio, then looked at him. \u2018What\u2019s that supposed to mean?\u2019 Perhaps no one had ever asked him; he certainly seemed unprepared. He looked out to San Lazzaro: maybe the monks on the island could help him find an explanation. He put his hands in his pockets and raised and lowered himself on his toes a few times before saying, \u2018It\u2019s not like history, or Italian literature, or religion, or any of the other things we study. It\u2019s just there. You ask it a question and it gives you the answer. It shows you a rule, and that won\u2019t change, no matter how much someone prays about it or threatens you if you don\u2019t change the answer to the one he wants.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two parallel stories. Baby gangs that meet in the streets of Venice just to fight and show who is stronger, and a man who was the hero of the 2003 bombing of the Italian Carabinieri headquarters in Nasiriyah. In the baby gang is the son of this man. Some elements of the past don’t add […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[255,265],"tags":[42,31,173],"class_list":["post-16369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2024","category-challenge-abc-2024-2025","tag-childhood","tag-family","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/teo-zac-JkkttDP6imE-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16404,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions\/16404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}