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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N9OGYX2
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849838151
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849838153
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 500 g
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Martin Cruz-Smith's novels include Stalin's Ghost, Gorky Park, Rose, December 6, Polar Star and Stallion Gate. A two-time winner of the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and a recipient of Britain's Golden Dagger Award, he lives in California.

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  • Keen Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars Yet another absorbing read from a master of prose
    Reviewed in Australia on 15 July 2021
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    One always learns so much by reading MCS be it about vampire bats Chernobyl or, in this case, the drama of the last weeks of ww2 in Italy. Thank you Mr Cruz Smith for yet another absorbing read.
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  • Kangakid
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful.
    Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2017
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    A charming love story set in the last days of Italy's alliance with Germany. Written with humor, featuring marvellous characters, beautifully drawn.
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  • coral heazlewood
    3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasurable but ordinary read
    Reviewed in Australia on 24 February 2017
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    Some interesting aspects, but story a bit far fetched in some aspects
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  • Alison
    4.0 out of 5 stars Not your typical Martin Cruz
    Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2018
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    Set in Venice towards the end of WW2 - the German army is about to leave, the partisans are approaching at speed and a war criminal who has betrayed a hidden group of wealthy Jews under Mussolini’s protection is out to protect his identity.
    Many interesting and colourful characters populate the narrative.
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  • sandra marchesin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
    Reviewed in Australia on 17 December 2016
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    Great
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  • Denis Ives
    2.0 out of 5 stars Boring...
    Reviewed in Australia on 11 December 2017
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    Was expecting better but this lacked substance in the plot. Did not engage me. Perhaps an excuse for the author to have a few visits to Venice. Was hoping for better insights into the end of Mussolini but this was flicked over briefly. Have read others by this author which were much better. Yawn...
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  • tom meszaros
    3.0 out of 5 stars "Lagoons of Schemes"
    Reviewed in Australia on 23 December 2016
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    An interesting blend of fact and fiction which seems the path well trod these days. Though the essentials of World War 2 novels set nearing the end of the conflict are there, Cruz Smith has been able to create a richly textured tale centered around the collapse of the Facists in Venice and Saló.
    Though obviously there are regular reminders of the grimness of War, the story still has a gentle, village feel to it. The conflict has had its impact yet in other ways these minnows go about their daily lives waiting for it to subside.
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  • dondee
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not Arkady Renko
    Reviewed in Australia on 14 August 2017
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    A competent & engaging thriller, more original than most of the repetitive dross out there. But Renko's Russian grunge remains the definitive un-put-downable Cruz Smith. (Of course we must accept that it is likely that Martin, like Le Carre, has recognized he has milked his richest character for all the best in him, and further resurrections would only weaken the literary legacy.)
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  • Bozz
    4.0 out of 5 stars A terrific Read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2018
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    very well researched and a gripping and unusual story line "faction" at its best. MCS has always been among my favorite authors and continues to impress. As gripping as Ghorky Park
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  • Sergio Escobedo Bocardo
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book
    Reviewed in Mexico on 16 December 2016
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    The girl from Venice is a good book with the strong characters and vivid descriptions proper of Martin Cruz Smith. I am expecting another story of Arkady Renko, but in the meantime I am enjoying The Girl from Venice. My native language is Spanish but I am reading "The Girl" in English, maybe in the future a spanish translation will be released.
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  • Julian Vertefeuille
    2.0 out of 5 stars Banale e retorico
    Reviewed in Italy on 27 August 2017
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    Un racconto tutto basato sul pittoresco e sui luoghi comuni. Scontato l'epilogo e confuse le trame e i personaggi. Un trito romanzetto
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  • fastbond
    3.0 out of 5 stars Technisch perfekt
    Reviewed in Germany on 7 April 2017
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    Ich habe keinen Zweifel, dass Martin Cruz Smith auch für dieses Buch Handlungsorte und -zeit perfekt recherchiert hat. So konnte ich viel über den Fischfang in der Lagune von Venedig mitnehmen, aber auch Detailwissen zu den letzten Tagen der Republik von Salò (dem faschistischen Satellitenstaat Mussolinis unter der Protektion des Deutschen Reichs 1943-1945). Vor diesem Hintergrund spielt die Auseinandersetzung zweier Brüder, in die unvermittelt die junge Frau des Titels des Romans einbricht. Formal ist die Bezeichnung "Roman" wohl richtig, aber letztlich erinnert mich das sehr kurze Buch dann doch mehr an ein Kammerspiel, es ist mit all den Charakteren ausgestattet, die man erwarten kann: pathetischen Schwarzhemden, zynischen Partisanen, fliehenden Juden, Kriegsgewinnlern, desavouierten Diplomaten und bis zum Schluss aufrechten Wehrmachtssoldaten. Alle spielen perfekt ihre Rollen in einer Endzeitstimmung kurz vor dem Anrücken der Alliierten unter amerikanischer Führung. Die Dialoge sind lakonisch, destilliert bis auf das absolute Minimum, so als hätte keiner der Akteure noch Kraft für mehr. Einzige Ausnahme ist die junge jüdische Frau, die von allen gejagt oder gesucht wird. Sie fordert mit verbaler Schärfe ein Leben für sich und echte Emotionen von den Personen, mit denen sie interagiert. Spätestens hier überspannt Cruz den Bogen, dieses Auftreten ist völlig unrealistisch für ein Mädchen aus reichsten Verhältnissen, dass sich 2 Jahre lang vor der SS und ihren italienischen Schergen in einem psychiatrischen Hospital versteckt hat.
    Die Periode des letzten Jahres des 2. Weltkriegs ist mir aus den Schilderungen meiner damals sehr jungen Eltern und auch ihrer italienischen Freunde gut bekannt. Aus deren spärlichen Worten konnte ich Angst, Not und Verzweiflung herauslesen nach Flucht, Vergewaltigung und Tod nächster Angehöriger und fortgesetzter Bedrohung durch unkontrollierbare Kräfte. Der fast zynischen Abgeklärtheit von Cruz' Protagonisten bin ich nirgendwo begegnet. Ohne diesen frontalen Zusammenprall von persönlicher Erfahrung und den im Roman geschilderten Vorgängen hätte ich der technischen Perfektion vielleicht mehr Wert beimessen können. So bleibt es bei 3 Sternen.
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  • BookLover59
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant capstone in Martin Cruz Smith's WWII Triptych -- and a cracking good, suspenseful read!
    Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2016
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    Though most Johnny and Jane-come latelys likely won't know it, Martin Cruz Smith has been writing "stand-alone" thrillers as long as he has been writing the Arkady Renko series. And THE GIRL FROM VENICE is the third of a group of such novels that could stand as a brilliant WWII Triptych: STALLION GATE, DECEMBER 6, and, now, THE GIRL FROM VENICE. Each of them is quite different from the other insofar as the protagonist is concerned, as well as the geography (and, of course, plot details). Well before movies like "Fat Man & Little Boy", TV shows like "Manhattan" or even novels like "Los Alamos" (or the forthcoming "Omega Canyon" by the second-rate Dan Simmons), Martin Cruz Smith wrote thriller STALLION GATE around the goings-on in New Mexico, during the invention of the Atomic Bomb and Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project. Smith's protagonist was a jazz-playing, trouble-making, half-Pueblo Indian Army Sergeant who stumbles upon a plot that is ignored by his bigoted superior (and the last line of this novel is every bit as breath-taking as that of GORKY PARK). In DECEMBER 6 (one Smith's finest novels) ne'er do-well Harry Niles (an expatriate raised in Japan) is torn between doing well for himself (and his club, "Happy Paris"), his genuine love for Japan and it's culture (not to mention a particular Japanese woman) and his patriotic feelings for the USA, when he stumbles upon information that the Japanese are gearing up for a major invasion of a foreign country. All the while, he is trying to avoid a jealous, Samurai officer who literally wants his head.

    With THE GIRL FROM VENICE, Smith sets his WWII thriller in Italy. Like STALLION GATE, this novel is set during the waning months and days of WWII.

    Having been dishonorably discharged from the service because he wouldn't use Mustard gas, former pilot Cenzo spends his time plying a trade as a fisherman. Which is how he discovers what he believes is the body of a young girl, near his boat, the "Fatima", while navigating the Venice lagoon. Only the girl is still alive. And it turns out that Guilia Silber is a Jewish refugee, on the run from the Nazis (she inadvertnetly gained knowledge that put her on their hit list).

    When a Nazis officer discovers she is still alive, Cenzo kills him to protect Giulia, and then finds himself backed into a corner when it comes to protecting her and giving her place to hid. As their fates are inextricably intertwined, Cenzo falls in love with the classically educated, upper class, young woman. And the action of the narrative moves from the sleepy fishing village of Pellestrina, to Venice and Salo and on to Switzerland.

    Yes, there are more than a few formulaic elements: but Martin Cruz Smith is too canny a writer to leave it at that.
    He mixes in genuine human melodrama and subtle character development: the slowly developing love affair between Giulia and Cenzo; the abiding love and marriage of an older couple, and the way the Argentinian wife eschews an easy escape from the horrors of war to stay with her bed-ridden husband; the small but salient details about Cenzo's fishing life, and the family dynamics in his clan (especially between Cenzo and the older brother who cuckold's him); a Nazis officer who off-handedly points out that even in the German Army there are soldiers who think Reich is dedicated to craziness; and so on.

    As for the War and its atrocities -- which comes up via the fact that Guilia's Jewish family (and others) are exterminated early on, "off-stage", in the book -- the focus is less directly on the Nazi and their crimes (which has been done so often it has become a cliche') and much more on the collaborators and the resistance within the country of Italy. By using that as his doorway into the horrors of WWII, Smith manages to keep THE GIRL FROM VENICE from being just another in an assembly line of WWII thrillers.

    It isn't the finest of Smith's loose, WWII trilogy (that honor belongs to DECEMBER 6), but with its heart-warming romance, nicely crafted characters and insights, and a well-paced, suspenseful, plot, THE GIRL FROM VENICE is a brilliant capstone in Martin Cruz Smith's WWII Triptych -- and cracking good read!
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