Krimi. Camped in her horse-drawn caravan at Buckshaw, a young Gypsy woman is charged with the abduction -and then the murder - of a local child, and Flavia must draw upon her encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons - and Gypsy lore - to prevent a grave miscarriage of justice.
Flavia de Luce thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over-until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity.
El año es 1950. Imagínese una vieja casa de campo victoriana en algún lugar de Inglaterra. Imagínese a una niña que vive allí con una familia poco común. Se llama Flavia de Luce, tiene casi once años y un don para la química. Con una vida familiar de lo más complicada y una difícil relación con sus hermanas, Flavia es una niña solitaria y de extraños talentos que pasa las horas encerrada en el viejo laboratorio de la mansión familiar, su santuario privado. Allí hurga en el pasado prohibido de su taciturno padre, viudo desde hace años, como si fuera un detective y planea venganzas contra sus hermanas Ophelia y Daphne. No es de extrañar que, cuando aparece un cuerpo sin vida en el jardín de su casa, Flavia lo convierta en su próximo experimento científico, hasta que, para sorpresa de todos, la policía detiene a su padre como presunto culpable. Flavia decide, entonces, descubrir la verdad que se esconde tras este crimen. Ganadora del prestigioso Debut Dagger Award, Flavia de los extraños talentos es una novela sorprendente, original, imaginativa, absorbente, inteligente y divertida, con una protagonista carismática y muy especial. Prepárate para conocer a Flavia: no la olvidarás jamás.
Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story reveals how a bright little girl transformed from dutiful obedience into an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. In this timely memoir, she recounts her astonishing journey from a traditional Muslim upbringing in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, now living under armed guard in the West. Her rise to international prominence followed the murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, after they collaborated on the film Submission. With a keen eye and often ironic voice, she details her evolving beliefs, unyielding will, and extraordinary resolve to combat injustices committed in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family, she faced civil war, female mutilation, and brutal beatings, navigating adolescence during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in four unstable countries ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, earning a degree in political science and advocating for the rights of Muslim immigrant women. Despite constant threats, being demonized by reactionary Islamists, and disowned by her family, she remains unyielding in her fight for free speech and reform.
Ja sam Ayaan, kći Hirsija, Maganovog sina. U prvom dijelu “Nevjernice” Ayaan Hirsi Ali kao petogodišnjakinja sjedi na travi dok je baka poučava imenima predaka, upozoravajući je da ih mora poštovati. Priča počinje u nomadskoj obitelji, gdje je Ayaan obrezana u djetinjstvu i podučavana od radikalnih učitelja u Keniji i Saudijskoj Arabiji. Uči da će, ako otkrije kosu, doživjeti strašne tragedije. Iako su je upozorili da će imati nesretan život i umrijeti sama, ona uspijeva pobjeći i postati međunarodno priznata glasnogovornica za prava muslimanskih žena. Njezin bijeg od obitelji, koja je prisilno vodila k dogovorenom mužu u Kanadu, dovodi je do političkog azila u Nizozemskoj, gdje priznaje da je izmislila svoju priču. U novoj zemlji, Ayaan skida veo i prkosi tradiciji, oblačeći traperice, vozeći bicikl i upisujući se na sveučilište. Postaje aktivna u javnom govoru o tretmanu muslimanskih žena i ulazi u nizozemski parlament. Međutim, tragedija je uslijedila kada je surađivala s redateljem Theom van Goghom na kontroverznom filmu o patnji muslimanskih žena. Nakon što je Van Gogha ubio radikal, Ayaan se počinje skrivati zbog prijetnji smrću, a mediji istražuju njenu prošlost i otkrivaju nedosljednosti u njenoj priči o azilu.