THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY
Alexander McCall Smith
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith was born in 1948 in Rodesia, in what is now Zimbabwe, but he was educated there and in Scotland. He became a law professor in Scotland and then he returned to Africa to work in Botswana, where he helped to set up a new law school at the University of Botswana. For many years he was Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.
Alexander McCall Smith has written more than 60 books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular childrens' books. He has always loved Africa and its people, and he has written many stories about it.
The best known for his internationally acclaimed is "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", which rapidly rose to the top of the bestseller lists throughout the world. This book also has a serie.
Contact with him
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SUMMARY
This book tells the story of Mma Precious Ramotswe. This Aftrican lady has a talent for solving mysteries so she becomes a private detective, the first woman in Botswana to enter that profession, and opens an agency called The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The book show us the many dangerous that Mma Ramotswe encounters and risky obstacles in the course of her investigations but succeeds through using her intelligence, courage and instinct. Most of the mysteries that Mma Ramotswe solves are not serious crimes but they are daily, as unfaithfulness, thefts and missings. For this reason the protagonist has a lot of common sense and a deep understanding of human weaknesses.
The novel is divided in twenty-one chapters, and each case occupies one.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Mma Precious Ramotswe
The first female private investigator in Botswana. 'Traditionally built' heroine and protagonist of the series.
Mma Grace Makutsi
The Agency's secretary and Mma Ramotswe's assistant.
Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni
Mma Ramotswe's suitor and eventual husband.
SERIE
Because of the success of the book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the BBC and American television network HBO filmed a serie based on the book.
Below, I present the trailer of the film.
Below, I present the trailer of the film.
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency HBO Trailer Filmed in Beautiful, Bountiful Botswana
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a unusual book if you read the titol and you wait for the classic novel of this genre. We can't framed this novel as a crime novel even as police or detective novel. Its true that the protagonist resolves cases but with a different way of carry it out and her attitude has nothing to do with the detectives to which we are used.
Another thing that I like a lot is the setting that the author reproduces in all the book. As the Precious Ramotswe resolves the cases in different places, the descriptions are more and more amazing and its reproduces the beauty scenary of Africa.
I strongly recommend this book because it's a highly entertaining read. It's a funny novel that you have add to your collection.
INTERESTING VOCABULARY
In this section you can see some words that are new for me and I think that are interesting.
- cattle --> ganado
- hills --> colina
- van --> furgoneta
- mines --> minas
- barren --> estéril
- goats --> cabras
- struggle --> forcejeo
- edge --> borde, orilla
- sinners --> pecadores
- dung --> estiércol
LISTENING TO VIEW DESCRIPTION OF DETECTIVE AGENCY
Audio Recording on Tuesday afternoon by anocar
"How could any such list describe what one saw when one looked out form Mma Ramotswe's door? To the front, an acacia tree, the thorn tree which dots the wide edges of the Kalahari; the great white thorns, a warning; the olivegrey leaves, by contrast, so delicate. In its branches, in the late afternoon, or in the cool of the early morning, one might see a Go-Away Bird, or hear it, rather. And beyond the acacia, over the dusty road, the roofs of the town under a cover of trees and scrub bush; on the horizon, in the blue shimmer of heat, the hills, like improbable, overgrown termite-mounds."
Chapter 1, Page 1-2, Paragraph 2
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