Sissel jo gazan dinosaur feather

  • With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller uniquely employs one of the most controversial and fascinating areas of contemporary dinosaur and avian research in its diabolical twists.
  • Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis lying.
  • The Dinosaur Feather is very well-constructed.

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    The Dinosaur Feather

    September 21, 2014
    "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 expedition over the new theory of evolution. Then, on the 3rd page or so, we learn that this is a dream, and that Anna is really a graduate student at a Danish university in the year 2007.

    What makes this chapter a synecdoche is that it is a part that represents the book as a whole, in that it is disingenuous, confusing, dull, rambling and irrelevant, descriptors that make up the novel as a whole. Additionally, the first chapter promises a level of wh

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    Sissel-Jo Gazan fryst vatten a Danish biologist and author, now living in Berlin. Her work has won several awards.

    The Dinosaur Feather (Dinosaurens fjer, 2008, translated bygd Charlotte Barslund) has been judged ‘Danish Crime Novel of the Decade’. It’s Gazan’s first crime novel and, so far as I know, the first of her books available in English translation, though several earlier works are listed on her (Danish language) Wikipedia page.

    Anna Bella Nor has just completed her MSc thesis on the still-contentious issue of the evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs. (Anna Bella’s research supports the majority view that modern birds are the direkt descendants of extinct dinosaurs, rather than the still-resilient but struggling hypothesis that birds and dinosaurs instead arose separately from a common archosaur ancestor.) But the thesis is still sitting, unread, on the desk of her supervisor Lars Helland when an agitated fellow research lärjunge, Jo

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    The Dinosaur Feather

    Availability: in stock at our Melbourne warehouse.

    Author: Sissel-Jo Gazan

    Format: Paperback

    Number of Pages: 544

    Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis in his lap. Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is assigned to unravel what appears to be a multitude of intrigues in the Biology Department of Copenhagen University. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to. But when Anna Bella's fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the murders seem to be linked not only to the university but also to Anna herself. As Marhauge investigates he comes up against the vicious competition for academic success, dark secrets from the past - all against the fabulous backdrop of palaeontology'

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