The labyrinth of ghosts
The labyrinth of ghosts is the third crime novel by Tony Hillerman . Under the title Listening Woman he published in 1978 in English , in German for the first time 1,989th
context
The labyrinth of ghosts is an ethnic thriller. The action takes place in the northeast of the US state of Arizona and the sparsely populated Navajo Nation Reservation there . The central figure is the police officer Joe Leaphorn, Navajo (also: Dinee, "people") and officer of the Navajo Tribal Police ( police of the Navajo Nation Reservation).
The novel is based - similar to the first two in the series - on the tensions that arise from the encounter between “white” and Indian cultures. The only difference is that the protagonists are not depicted as European and Indian origin, but almost all those involved, “good” and “bad”, are Navajos. The “white” culture is viewed very critically. But the betrayal of traditional values is committed in this novel by a Navajo.
As with the two previous novels, the representation of the Navajo culture takes up a lot of space. Tony Hillerman shifts part of the plot into a “Kinaalda” ceremony, the initiation rite for adolescents - here for a girl who becomes a woman.
people
- Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Tribal Police investigator . His office is in Window Rock, Arizona .
- Captain Largo, his temporary boss
- Begay, a livestock thief
- Hosteen Tso is ill and needs the help of a spirit healer
- James Tso, his eldest son
- Benjamin Tso, his younger son, Roman Catholic priest
- Standing Medicine, Hosteen Tso's great-grandfather and a 19th century Navajo leader (long deceased)
- Margaret Cigaret ("Listening Woman"), a spirit healer
- Anna Atcitty, her niece
- John McGinnis runs a trading post
- Theodora Adams from Washington, DC is looking for her lover
- John Tull, a gangster
- Hoski, who has many other names, is a gangster
- Henry Kelogny, another gangster
action
Joe Leaphorn is faced with a whole host of crimes that could somehow be related. It is his job to find out. One of the crimes is that Joe Leaphorn himself is deliberately hit by the driver of a Mercedes-Benz . Other related crimes include a double homicide , heroin found in a wrecked car, a missing helicopter , a robbery on a money transport in Santa Fe, and the kidnapping of a boy scout group . Before Joe Leaphorn solves the case, there is a dramatic car chase in which the main culprit tries to kill him.
Relation to other works
Tony Hillerman continues the series with The Labyrinth of Spirits , which he started with, Wolf without a track and shots from the Stone Age . In all three novels, Joe Leaphorn is the central figure and investigator. The crime novels are built around Indian culture. The sequel to the series is the crime novel Death of the Moles ( People of Darkness ).
expenditure
- Listening Woman - Issues published: 1978, 1989, 1992, 1994.
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The labyrinth of ghosts :
- Rowohlt Verlag 1989. ISBN 978-3-499-42857-9
- Rowohlt Verlag 1992 = reprint of the 1989 edition.
- Goldmann Verlag 1997. ISBN 978-3-442-43362-9
- Rowohlt Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3-499-23898-7
- The Audio Verlag 2005. ISBN 978-3-89813-476-7 ( audio book )
Remarks
- ↑ ISBN 978-3-499-42857-9
- ↑ See section “Reference to other works”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harper & Row , New York 1978. ISBN 3-499-42857-1
- ^ Catalog of the Library of Congress