The Waters of Eternal Youth

Commissario Brunetti #25
Cover Art for 9780802124807, The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon
ISBN: 9780802124807
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 8 March, 2016
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In Donna Leon s Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth , the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all. Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a nearby man, an alcoholic, who heard her splashes and pulled her out, though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage that left her in a state of permanent childhood, unable to learn or mature. The drunk man claimed he saw her thrown into the canal by another man, but the following day he couldn t remember a thing. Now, at a fundraising dinner for a Venetian charity, a wealthy and aristocratic patronessthe girl s grandmotherasks Brunetti if he will investigate. Brunetti s not sure what to do. If a crime was committed, it would surely have passed the statute of limitations. But out of a mixture of curiosity, pity, and a willingness to fulfill the wishes of a guilt-wracked older woman, who happens to be his mother-in-law s best friend, he agrees. Brunetti soon finds himself unable to let the case rest, if indeed there is a case. Awash in the rhythms and concerns of contemporary Venetian life, from historical preservation, to housing, to new waves of African migrants, and the haunting story of a woman trapped in a damaged perpetua

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