The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, who's their full-fledged heir. It's the detective as folk hero, solving cri ... review details
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Great Window into the World of Africa
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How charming are these books! I have a confession to make - I've never really cared about traveling all that much, and especially not to somewhere as remote and foreign as Africa. But that has very much changed with Mma Romotswe and Alexander McCall Smith's accounting of her. I now harbor a secret dream of visiting Botswana and the Kalahari.
This first in a series is delightful; Mr. Smith is a true craftsman. He manages to bring us the world at a much slower pace, one that can be very difficult to understand in this country. But he does it while maintaining the integrity of his characters. While they may have a simple way of viewing the world, the characters in this book (and the others that I've read) are not one-dimensional simpletons. Smith manages to weave the problems of today into a culture that isn't necessarily ruled by time so strictly as in the western world.
And while there are many "mysteries" in this novel, the detective agency is more about human nature and the problems we create for ourselves. Mma Romotswe just manages to ponder and resolve some of these issues, while dealing with the problems that arise from daily living. What a fun book. |
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