The golden egg (novel)
The Golden Egg is a novel by crime writer Donna Leon . It was published in 2013 under the original title The Golden Egg . The German version was published in a translation by Werner Schmitz in 2014 by Diogenes Verlag .
content
This 22nd novel by the author is about the death of the deaf disabled Davide who collapsed from tablet poisoning. The mother of the 25-year-old, who was visited by the inspector and known from the neighborhood, shows hardly any feelings and claims that she helped him with his suicide . He wanted to leave his life because he had no friends and was therefore increasingly desperate.
Signorina Elettra finds out that there is literally nothing on the deceased in any files, not even a birth certificate . Brunetti does not believe in suicide , especially since Davide's aunt, his mother and their doctor are involved in contradictions. Paola takes a perjury to prevent the investigation from being closed. Against the resistance of Patta and the public prosecutor, the inspector continues to investigate and comes across the rich Serenissima family of Ludovico Lembo. Once again, an abyss of hypocrisy turns out to be the cause of the fall .
Audio book
- The golden egg: Commissario Brunetti's twenty-second case , Diogenes audio book (speaker: Joachim Schönfeld), ISBN 978-3-257-80341-9 .
success
The book was number 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list for 4 weeks in 2014 .
filming
The first broadcast of the German TV adaptation of the novel with Uwe Kockisch , Julia Jäger , Juliane Köhler , Karl Fischer and Michael Degen took place on March 31, 2016 . Directed by Sigi Rothemund . The film version, based on the script by Stefan Holtz and Florian Iwersen , deviates from the original novel in that the threading and the power relations of the underlying contract killing are clearly staged. Paola Brunetti also witnesses the death of Davide, who collapses on the canal bank due to tablet poisoning.
supporting documents
- ↑ [ https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8021-2101-1 The Golden Egg Donna Leon. Atlantic Monthly], ISBN 978-0-8021-2101-1 , publishersweekly.com, accessed June 27, 2019
- ↑ Cold showers for Commissioner Brunetti , Merkur, May 27, 2014, accessed April 2, 2016
- ↑ Film Donna Leon: "The Golden Egg" First broadcast ( memento of the original from April 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diogenes Verlag, accessed April 2, 2016
- ↑ DasErste.de ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
