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  • Title: The Dinosaur Feather
  • Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan
  • ISBN: 9780857380333
  • Page: 319
  • Format: Paperback

    • How could one man inspire such hatred Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes A sad but simple end Until the autopsy results come through The true cause of his death the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man leaves the police at a loss And when a sHow could one man inspire such hatred Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes A sad but simple end Until the autopsy results come through The true cause of his death the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man leaves the police at a loss And when a second member of Helland s department disappears, their attention turns to a postgraduate student named Anna She s a single mother, angry with the world, desperate to finish her degree Would she really jeopardise everything by killing her supervisor As the police investigate the most brutal and calculated case they ve ever known, Anna must fight her own demons, prove her innocence and avoid becoming the killer s next victim The Dinosaur Feather is the most fascinating, complex and unusual Scandinavian crime novel since Miss Smilla s Feeling for Snow.
    Sissel-Jo Gazan
    Biologist and author Currently living in Berlin.In 2008 she published her 4th novel Dinosaurens fjer.

    The Dinosaur Feather S.J Selected by NPR s Maureen Corrigan as her favorite mystery of and one of the top ten mysteries of the year by The Wall Street Journal s Tom Nolan, S.J Gazan s debut novel The Dinosaur Feather is a classic of Scandinavian noir.With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller uniquely employs one of the most controversial and fascinating areas of Dinosaur Feather and Tick Preserved in Ancient Amber Prove At some time during the Cretaceous era, a tick crawled onto a dinosaur feather, looking for its next meal But somehow the tick and the feather both became encased in amber. First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber Latest Stories The tail of a million year old dinosaur, including bones, soft tissue, and even feathers, has been found preserved in amber, according to a report published today in the journal Current Biology. Dinosaur A collection of fossil dinosaur skeletons Clockwise from top left Microraptor gui a winged theropod , Apatosaurus louisae a giant sauropod , Edmontosaurus regalis a duck billed ornithopod , Triceratops horridus a horned ceratopsian , Stegosaurus stenops a plated stegosaur , Pinacosaurus grangeri an ard ankylosaur Scientific classification Feather There are two basic types of feather vaned feathers which cover the exterior of the body, and down feathers which are underneath the vaned feathers The pennaceous feathers are vaned feathers Also called contour feathers, pennaceous feathers arise from tracts and cover the entire body. Dinosaur Stan Adelstein, Lanice Archer Buy Dinosaur Read Movies TV Reviews Whether or not you remember the court wrangling over the bones of the thirteenth Tyrannosaurus Rex found by paleontologists, affectionately dubbed Sue, you will find this documentary an engrossing tale. Arm to Wing Evolution from Dinosaur to Bird Evolution Wing Evolution Wings evolved over many, many millions of years Scientists have extensively studied the wings of modern day birds and have identified many important anatomical details. Feathered dinosaur Britannica Feathered dinosaur, any of a group of theropod carnivorous dinosaurs, including birds, that evolved feathers from a simple filamentous covering at least by the Late Jurassic Period about million to million years ago Similar structures have been reported on the bodies of some Sinosauropteryx prima the first feathered dinosaur Sinosauropteryx is the first dinosaur fossil ever found that showed evidence of having feathers.It has been called one of the most exciting scientific discoveries in decades. Latest News Dinosaur Isle A dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight has travelled , miles across the world as part of a special exhibition in Japan The fossilised bones of the meat eating Neovenator, including parts of the skull and feet, are featured in a new exhibition at the Fukui Prefecture Dinosaur Museum s exhibition Theropods from Carnivorous Dinosaurs to Flying Birds.


    Commentaires:

    Matt
    Having received much praise when it was released in 2013, I was pleased to explore Sissel-Jo Gazan’s debut novel, balancing that Scandinavian noir mystery with a strong science component to keep the reader guessing throughout. The origins of birds is apparently a hotly-debated topic in that ivory tower known as paleo-ornithology. Could it be possible that birds were once dinosaurs? Even more controversially, could dinosaurs actually have had feathers? A great deal of it comes down to evolution [...]
    Beatriz
    Me gustó mucho, aunque me cuesta explicar por qué. De hecho, se me haría más fácil argumentar los fallos que le encontré y que, lamentablemente, están relacionados con la promoción que se hace de la novela y que genera falsas expectativas: Mejor Novela Negra Danesa de la Década… no es sólo un trepidante thriller científico repleto de intriga psicológica, sino también una apasionante historia de amor.Pero no, definitivamente eso no es lo que vamos a encontrar. A pesar de que inicia [...]
    Prince
    There are too many things I dislike about this book.1. Pointless back stories - In the first few pages, we have a fairly interesting murder take place. Then follows 200 pages of back stories. Characters are introduced quickly followed by a tonne of history, all of which have nothing to do with the central mystery. And all this delivered in the rich prose found in a phone directory.2. Everyone is angry - Yes EVERYONE. Our lead character Anna Bella Nor is an angry young woman who yells at everyone [...]
    Rick Urban
    "The Dinosaur Feather"'s first chapter is something of a synecdoche. It is a long, rambling account of our main character, Anna Bella Nor, who seems to be an archaeologist in the 1870s who is uncovering the remains of Archaeopteryx, an ancient bird, while on a dig in Southern Germany. The chapter even begins with the heading "Solnhofen, Southern Germany, April 1877". It depicts in fine detail how Anna has been there for months, covered in dust, having philosophical arguments with the head of the [...]
    Karen
    January is often a very good reading month for some reason. That alone doesn't make a lot of sense - it's normally hot enough to melt the tin on the roof, which isn't conducive to concentration. Making THE DINOSAUR FEATHER look like a rather risky choice. At 535 pages it was way too big for any struggle with concentration, and after starting the book and finding myself deep in discussions on paleo-ornithology and not a lot of "crime action", I was feeling somewhat sceptical to say the least. Add [...]
    Alger
    Apparently being named Danish Crime Novel of the Decade is like being the Checkers Champion of the Oklahoma Panhandle; a distinction of no distinction.While the book is a terrible disappointment from every angle, the book is readable, and there is a mystery plot (view spoiler)[that is actually two (hide spoiler)], but the selling of this book as a mystery is false. The selling of this book as a science thriller is false. The selling of this book as a crime novel is false. The academic subplot is [...]
    Richard Derus
    Rating: 3.75* of fiveThe Publisher Says: How could one man inspire such hatred?Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap. A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes. A sad but simple end. Until the autopsy results come through. The true cause of his death - the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man - leaves the police at a loss. And when a second member of Helland's department disappears, their attention turns to a postgrad [...]
    Bettie☯
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    Rubi
    Siempre he tenido debilidad por los autores de los países nórdicos; por lo que, mi apreciación lleva sesgo.Me gusto la historia, me gusta conectar con los personajes y que éstos despierten emociones en mi; la mayor parte del tiempo odie a la protagonista por su egocentrismo. En ocasiones, sentía que se le pasaba la mano con los aportes científicos, pero al final la disfrute enormemente.I always had a weakness for the authors of the Nordic countries; so, my appreciation is biased.I like the [...]
    Dan
    The Dinosaur Feather is a very different book from the norm. It is compared to the Millennium Trilogy but the similarities are few and far between. The basic plot is the same as any whodunnit- in this case a scientist is killed horribly. It's seen from the perspective of three characters- Anna Bella, a student studying towards her thesis, Soren, the detective in charge of the case and Adam Freeman, an American scientist who is the murdered scientist's big rival. The book isn't about the murders, [...]
    Ms.pegasus
    This claustrophobic mystery takes place in Copenhagen. The present-day scenes (2007) are confined to the insular world of academe, where researchers can labor in the same building for decades but have acquaintance only with colleagues in the same field. Anna Bella Nor is a post-graduate student under pressure to complete and defend her doctoral dissertation, a proof that birds are descended from dinosaurs and not from an archaic pre-dinosaur ancestor as Canadian bird paleontologist Clive Freeman [...]
    Agnocal
    I give up on Scandinavian mysteries. What could have been an interesting story, with some fun science, got lost in insufferable, meandering minutiae; unpleasant, unbelievable characters; and a total lack of editing.Seriously it was if you and your friend walked past a yellow street sign and your friend later that day regaled a group of co-workers with the following: "We walked past a yellow street sign, painted but not installed by John Baumberg, who had painted yellow signs for many years after [...]
    Neyly
    My reading time could have been better spent.1. I don't like the main character Anna Bella Nor. Her anger issues, sneering, and constant stomping away become old quickly. In other books with an unlikeable main character, the reader is supposed to feel dislike; here I sense a certain expectation to sympathize with - to like - the unlikeable Anna Bella and I just don't.2. I don't like the secondary characters. The reader spends way too much time reliving everyone's bad childhood and it (mostly) ha [...]
    Cheryl
    You ever have that moment where you are really excited to read a book that you put aside all the others (yes, I did say others as I usually have about 3 to 4 books open at the same time) you are currently reading? Well that is what I did when this book arrived. I quickly realized that sometimes a book may sound good and the cover is cool but that does not make the book good. I got to about chapter three and than realized that this book and I were not going to become good friends. The storyline g [...]
    Nick Davies
    An interesting mixture, plenty that I liked about this, several aspects that weren't to my taste overall an enjoyable read despite being slightly inconsistent in places and a slog because of being longer than it maybe should've been.The story follows an investigation into the suspicious death of a university professor, focussing in particular on the detective investigating the crime and on a young female post-grad student being supervised by the dead professor. I thought the plot was intricate a [...]
    Kate
    I sat down to read this book wanting to love it. I liked it. But what could have been a completely absorbing debut fell just wide of the mark. [This book is partially hidden because although it does not contain actual spoilers, it does contain some details you might want to come to fresh]The premise is fascinating. Anna Bella Nor is a postgraduate student struggling to juggle the pressures of her impending PhD viva and caring for her young daughter, Lily, only to find these compounded when her s [...]
    Kam-Hung Soh
    There's three narrative threads, Anna Bors a student preparing to defend her Ph.D thesis, Philip Freeman a Canadian professor of a disputed theory of bird evolution and Soren Marhauge the detective investigating a murder which should link all the threads. Annoyingly, after investing time in reading all three, only one thread really matters and the others fizzle out.
    Howard Cincotta
    The Danish literary establishment did first-time novelist S. J. Gazan no favors with its high praise for The Dinosaur Feather, and if this is the country’s best crime novel of the last decade – as the blurbs claim – then Danish literature is in serious trouble. Which is sad because the book is a respectable first-time effort with an intriguing plot premise that Gazan does not yet have the skills to deliver. A Scandinavian mystery featuring a beleaguered single-mother graduate student, stra [...]
    Victoria
    After something of a dry-spell with finding Scandinavian mysteries that live up to their reputation, I nearly passed this one up. Though its premise initially intrigued, my recent strikeouts with the subgenre and with translated fiction in general gave me pause. But after hearing a rather mixed bag of reviews, I decided that I would just have to try it out for myselfAnd though the first chapter is far from intriguing (the dream landscape is frankly alienating and sets the stage for an entirely d [...]
    Toby
    Never judge a book by its cover they say. The cover shouted, "If you liked The Killing, you will like this book". How wrong the publishers were. Cheap publicity stunt that. The book is a discourse on biology of birds coupled with detailed personal histories of a smorgasbord of very different characters, in the backdrop of a couple of murders. A thriller, in the strict sense, it is not. I had to skim through the pages having content which would interest only the most hardcore of biologists and pa [...]
    Grace
    I guess technically this is a murder mystery, since two people die mysteriously of unnatural causes. Except that once you have all the information, the who, the why, and the how become quite clear very quickly - which is to say that the mystery is not the most important part of the book. It is a story about parents and children, loss, obsession, fear - and yet manages to be uplifting in the end because it is also a story about redemption and second chances. And there are dinosaurs, woohoo! This [...]
    Seonaid
    As much an exploration into the long term effects of childhood events as a murder mystery, The Dinosaur Feather revolves around the horrific murder of a respected Danish scientist and the ripples this causes across the international world of paleo-biology. The novel is not without flaws, and towards the end one might wonder why Soren, the detective, even bothers, but I found the back stories to Anna Bella, Soren and Clive Freeman, the murder victim's arch rival, compelling and the subtle interpl [...]
    Trine
    Bogen ville alt, alt for meget. Det var ALT for mange baggrundsfortællinger, og de fik ikke hver især nok plads. Men alligevel fyldte det meget, og hovedhistorien forsvandt lidt i baggrunden Syntes hellere ikke *jeg* fik følelsen af at være med til at "løse" mysteriet Men jeg er ikke i tvivl om at Sissel-Jo Gazan SKRIVER godt, hun vil, desværre, bare alt for meget med tanke på hvad sidetal hun arbejder med.
    Rasmus Paulsen
    I was very impressed by this book. In particular, I liked the characters. The setting at the institute for Biology, KU is fun (since I know it). The mix of scientific discussions and murder mysteries worked very well. Even though it is exagerated, I can still recognise the fight for funding and the internal university politics.
    Emma
    The Dinosaur Feather sounds like it should be right up my street but I just couldn’t get into it.  There is a slow start, where Anna (the main character) is caught up in a dream before it moves onto pages and pages of explanation of who she is and why she was having the dream – she is due to finish her doctorate on whether birds are descendent from dinosaurs.   The pace never picks up.  I didn’t check the page count but it has to be 100 or so pages before we get to the murder Anna h [...]
    Lew Watts
    It's been a long time since I failed to finish a book
    Stacia
    Dinosaurs are “sexy,” and the question of what became of them is glamorous.Where do you draw the line between birds and reptiles in the evolutionary timeline? This is a debate that has gone on for decades. In the world of academia, where competition for funding is fierce and disagreements over how to interpret evidence can take the form of decades-long feuds carried out in academic journals and at conferences, media coverage means more publicity, and that means more money. Anna Bella Nor has [...]
    Rita Berk
    Mystery set in Copenhagen with a large amount of information on birds and dinosaurs, there are two murders, one with a bizarre murder weapon. Detective Soren Marhauge tries to unravel the circumstances surrounding the murders. There is lots of personal information about him and another main character, Anna Bella Nor. Complicated plot, lots of dysfunctional people but it all comes together at the end.
    Mark
    I was tempted to give this three stars for what I thought were some of the excesses and inconsistencies of the plot, but in the end, I just couldn't resist four stars on the strength of the real dinosaur science embedded in the book (courtesy of the author's biology background) and the fact she took the trouble to give us full back stories on nearly every major character, including their childhoods, their personal crises and their family dynamics.I also was intrigued by the fact that both the pr [...]
    Martha Bullen
    If you enjoy unpredictable, intelligent mysteries in an international setting, this book is for you.The Dinosaur Feather caught my eye due to its unusual title and a positive review in Publishers Weekly and on NPR. I was further intrigued when I learned this debut mystery novel was named The Crime Novel of the Decade by the Danish Broadcasting Corp. I'm glad I read it.Set in the cloistered world of academia, where serious scientists are engaged in research at the University of Copenhagen, this n [...]
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