Inferno
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
Skottskadad och drabbad av minnesförlust vaknar Harvardprofessorn i religiös symbolik, Robert Langdon, i en sjukhussäng i Florens. Allteftersom Langdon börjar förstå vad som hänt växer en bild av ett fruktansvärt hot fram – skapat av ett galet geni vars fixering vid världens undergång bara kan mäta sig med hans kärlek till Dantes litterära mästerverk Inferno.
Under en vild jakt genom Florens myllrande och historiefyllda gator, palats och lönngångar inser Langdon att han i en kamp mot klockan är tvungen att lösa gåtorna kring ett mystiskt föremål – innan ett inferno utbryter.
"Inferno" publicerades första gången 2013 och är den fjärde fristående delen i den världsomspännande succén om professor Robert Langdon.
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The threat of world overpopulation is the latest assignment for Brown's art historian and accidental sleuth Robert Langdon. Awakening in a Florence hospital with no memory of the preceding 36 hours, Langdon and an attractive attending physician with an oversized intellect are immediately pursued by an ominous underground organization and the Italian police. Detailed tours of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul mean to establish setting, but instead bog down the story and border on showoffmanship. Relying on a deceased villain's trail of clues threaded through the text of Dante's The Divine Comedy, the duo attempt to unravel the events leading up to Langdon's amnesia and thwart a global genocide scheme. Suspension of disbelief is required as miraculous coincidences pile upon pure luck. Near the three-quarters point everything established gets upended and Brown, hoping to draw us in deeper, nearly drives us out. Though the prose is fast-paced and sharp, the burdensome dialogue only serves plot and back story, and is interspersed with unfortunate attempts at folksy humor. It's hard not to appreciate a present day mega-selling thriller that attempts a refresher course in Italian literature and European history. But the real mystery is in the book's denouement and how Brown can possibly bring his hero back for more.
