Inferno
Norsk utgave
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $26.99
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
I hjertet av Italia trekkes ikonografen Robert Langdon inn i en spennende verden som sentreres rundt et av historiens mest fascinerende, mørke og mystiske litterære mesterverk - Dantes "Inferno".
Langdon settes opp mot en skremmende motstander og slåss med koder og symboler som fører ham dypt inn i klassisk kunst, hemmelige korridorer og avansert vitenskap.
Gjennom en heftig jakt hvor det er umulig å fastslå hvem han kan stole på, sliter Langdon med å finne svar - før det er for sent, og verden vil bli ugjenkallelig forandret.
En unik cocktail av heseblesende underholdning og forrykende spenning.
”Brown er en eventyrforteller med hemningsløs fantasi.”
- Per Haddal, Aftenposten
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
