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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | 
 agrandir | Auteur: Alexander Mccall Smith
Créateur: Alexander Mccall Smith
Éditeur: Anchor Books
Prix de liste: EUR 5,23
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Évaluation moyenne des clients:  3 commentaires
Classement parmi les ventes: 524
Média: Poche
Édition: 6
Pages: 272
Poids (kg): 0.4
Dimension (cm): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 140009688X
Code Décimal Dewey: 823.914
EAN: 9781400096886
ASIN: 140009688X
Date de publication: Juillet 2005
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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 crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, combined with an understanding of human nature, invariably penetrates into the heart of a puzzle. If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana--and decided to go against any conventional notion of what an unmarried woman should do, spending the money she got from selling her late father's cattle to set up a Ladies' Detective Agency--then you have an idea of how Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. Once the clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious enjoys a pleasingly successful series of cases. But the edge of the Kalahari is not St. Mary Mead, and the sign Precious orders, painted in brilliant colors, is anything but discreet. Pointing in the direction of the small building she had purchased to house her new business, it reads "THE NO. 1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY. FOR ALL CONFIDENTIAL MATTERS AND ENQUIRIES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FOR ALL PARTIES. UNDER PERSONAL MANAGEMENT." The solutions she comes up with, whether in the case of the clinic doctor with two quite different personalities (depending on the day of the week), or the man who had joined a Christian sect and seemingly vanished, or the kidnapped boy whose bones may or may not be those in a witch doctor's magic kit, are all sensible, logical, and satisfying. Smith's gently ironic tone is full of good humor towards his lively, intelligent heroine and towards her fellow Africans, who live their lives with dignity and with cautious acceptance of the confusions to which the world submits them. Precious Ramotswe is a remarkable creation, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency well deserves the praise it received from London's Times Literary Supplement. I look forward with great eagerness to the upcoming books featuring the memorable Miss Ramotswe, Tears of the Giraffe and Morality for Beautiful Girls, soon to be available in the U.S. --Otto Penzler
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African Wisdom Septembre 12, 2007
Jeane FREER (Paris, France)
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Written by a man, The No1 Ladies' Detective Agency has enough of a feminist persepctive for me to feel I was reading something actually written for me, rather than feeling as I usually do when reading, that I am trying to take pleasure in literature created for an audience of which I am not a part. McCall Smith' s feminism is simple but fundamental : men should not beat their wives, the better fathers are those who encourage their daughters to be independent and realise their dreams, women have a right to happiness.
These beliefs are just part of the basic philosophy of the central character, Mma Precious Ramotswe, the first lady detective in Botswana, who imparts her basic moral philosophy at the same time - murder is worse than lying, relationships are more important than money, intuition is a kind of knowledge. While all of this philosophy may seem cliched, as perhaps it is, it appears naturally in the book as part of the character and helps us to understand her approach to solving the cases brought to her.
Woven throughout all of this is a picture of Botswana, considered by Ramotswe, and presumably McCall Smith, as the best and most successful country in Africa. Independent from the British since 1966, there is enormous pride in her accomplishments, and only the ongoinging black magic practices of some of the country's witchdoctors cast a shadow on the shining accomplishments of Botswana's diamond-fueled progress.
Most powerfully of all, it is the love of the land that sings throughout the book. Botswana - stretching from the Kalahari desert to the Limpopo river, a country where there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own . A country with its distinct riches - that was what her country was so rich in - emptiness...those empty spaces, those wide grasslands that broke and broke the heart . With its thorn trees that know how to survive in the searing heat and the birds and snakes of Mother Africa. Where nature is a family member and where the rising of the sun and its setting at the end of day are events to be savoured in the daily rhythm of life.
I read this book in a relaxed afternoon, and felt I had passed my time with a pleasant companion, who had painted pictures for me of a place I might otherwise never visit.
raffraichissant Septembre 2, 2006
nbb (nantes)
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Malgre les lieux reputes "chauds" des evenements decrits, les nouvelles ont un contenu tres raffraichissant. Les enquetes sont menees avec une fausse lenteur dans des endroits qu'on peut presque visualiser et surtout dont on peut sentir les parfums.Un livre decouvert par hasard qui donne envie de vite se laisser a nouveau seduire par la poussiere ambiante.
Une Miss Marple black et aux pieds nus Août 31, 2004
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Il est temps de prendre le temps, et meme d'en gagner en lisant la serie de romans policiers qu'Alexander McCall Smith consacre a la premiere detective privee africaine Mma Ramotswe.
Cette forte femme africaine est en passe de devenir la femme forte des enqueteurs tous continents confondus. Mma prolonge et renouvelle la tradition des Holmes, des Poirot, des Maigret, des Burma ...
Le depaysement est complet: les enquetes sont menees sans recherche d'ADN, sans micros miniaturises, sans jumelles a infra rouges, sans violence! L'enquetrice n'est pas une top model mais une femme qui pese bien son poids et en est fiere. Le pays choisi - le Botswana - offre un double depaysement, il nous amene en Afrique mais dans une Afrique qui ne met pas en scene tous les cliches attendus :les guerre tribales, la famine, le pouvoir corrompu...certes les crocodiles et les sorciers sont la, mais la democratie, la solidarite ancestral aussi.
Le genie de McCall Smith, par ailleurs universitaire specialiste de droit medical, est de nous faire gouter et aimer le rythme paisible de Mma Ramotswe et des Tswana, les habitants du Botswana, de nous faire trouver du plaisir a lenteur de ses enquetes, a la mincer des affaires qu'elle resoud, car chez Mma, au Botswana ce qui compte ce sont les etres et le bonheur de nouer des relations avec eux.
C'est dans un style simple a l'image de son heroine, qu'Alexander McCall Smith, qui a longtemps vecu au Botswana, nous offre sans l'air d'y toucher une contribution a la connaisance ethnologique de l'Afrique, sa methode: la tendresse.
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