The Kingston Reads/Evergreen Book of the Week

Kingston Reads is a campaign to promote reading, especially of Canadian books. We approached 10 local luminaries to champion the books that have been nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s prestigious Evergreen Award. Now is your chance to read all 10 nominated books before this fall’s “Battle of the Books”.

The Brutal Telling
by Louise Penny

Senator Segal’s Pitch
"Louise Penny does more here than weave an intricate mystery through the fabric of personalities and emotions - although she does that extremely well.
"The Brutal Telling" weaves the dimensions and eccentricities of a local community, the intrinsic "otherness" of a small eastern township village, through the histories and pathologies of family and individuals with a sense of texture and humanity very rare in murder mysteries. The richness of Quebec and Canadian culture and history, linkages to eastern Europe and elsewhere, the personalities of the police, the micro-climates of people's souls and self-image all become separate characters along with the actual people she describes so well. This is more that who did what to whom and why. This is an emotional and character analysis of the highest order - one that leads to a surprising and remarkably compelling result, that gives mystery, as a product of geography, psychology, human frailty, fear, greed and anxiety a very good name indeed."

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Posted on Thu, July 29, 2010, 02:55 PM
Category: Book of the Week 
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