Read and Download Ebook Pelagia and the Red Rooster... Pelagia and the Red Rooster Boris Akunin PDF File: Pelagia and the Red Rooster... 1 Read and Download Ebook Pelagia and the Red Rooster... Pelagia and the Red Rooster Boris Akunin Pelagia and the Red Rooster Boris Akunin The ship carrying the devout to Jerusalem has run into rough waters. Onboard is Manuila, controversial leader of the “Foundlings,” a sect that worships him as the Messiah. But soon the polarizing leader is no longer a passenger or a prophet but a corpse, beaten to death by someone almost supernaturally strong. But not everything is as it seems, and someone else sailing has become enmeshed in the mystery: the seemingly slow but actually astute sleuth Sister Pelagia. Her investigation of the crime will take her deep into the most dangerous areas of the Middle East and Russia, running from one-eyed criminals and after such unlikely animals as a red cockerel that may be more than a red herring. To her shock, she will emerge with not just the culprit in a murder case but a clue to the earth’s greatest secret. Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel features its beloved heroine’s most exciting and explosive inquiry yet, one that just might shake the foundations of her faith. Pelagia and the Red Rooster Details Date : Published 2009 by Phoenix (first published 2000) ISBN : 9780753826164 Author : Boris Akunin Format : Paperback Genre : Historical, Cultural, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Mystery Download Pelagia and the Red Rooster ...pdf Read Online Pelagia and the Red Rooster ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Pelagia and the Red Rooster Boris Akunin PDF File: Pelagia and the Red Rooster... 2 Read and Download Ebook Pelagia and the Red Rooster... From Reader Review Pelagia and the Red Rooster for online ebook Jim Leffert says Boris Akunin (the pseudonym of Georgian writer Grigory Chkhartishvili) has written 11 detective novels, taking place in the 19th century, which feature Russian secret agent and detective Erast Fandourin. Five of these novels have appeared in English. The present book is the third volume in a more recent series that takes place in the waning years of the Russian Empire—around 1910—and that feature an inquisitive and adventurous nun, Sister Pelagia, as the hero. Having missed the first two installments, I am unaware of the extraordinary and tragic events that led young Polina Andreevna to take up the habit and retire to a convent in rural Zavolzhsk by the Volga River, where she serves as headmistress for the local school. In this book, however, Sister Pelagia soon leaves the monastery and travels far afield, as she seeks to solve the murder of a man believed to be Manuila, a charismatic Russian preacher and founder of a sect of Russians who want to live like Jews and travel to the Holy Land. Manuila is despised both by xenophobic and anti-Semitic elements in Russia and by the established Jewish religious community, but the reasons for his attempted assassination are unclear. When the murdered man turns out to actually be a sect member who was posing as Manuila for security reasons, Sister Pelagia resolves to find the real Manuila in order to protect him from harm and to resolve the mystery of who is after him. Sister Pelagia is also vexed by a vision that she has involving a cave and a red cockerel. Sister Pelagia’s ally in her detective efforts is Matvei Bentsionovich Berdichevsky, a public prosecutor who is himself an assimilated Jew who has converted to Russian Orthodoxy. Berdichevsky’s zeal to get to the bottom of this mystery is amplified by his infatuation with Sister Pelagia. As Berdichevsky pursues his leads deep into the heart of reactionary government and quasi-governmental circles, we encounter the political convulsions and intrigues of the time, and particularly the anti-Semitic hostility that boiled over periodically into pogroms and later, into the infamous Beiliss blood libel trial (as detailed in Maurice Samuel’s fine book, Blood Accusation). While Berdichevsky investigates in Zhitomir and St. Petersburg, Sister Pelagia, forced to flee Russia, travels to the Holy Land, where she encounters a group of Zionist Halutzim, a Palestinian Arab guide, a group of homosexuals who are re-establishing Sodom with the help of an American millionaire, and the assassin, who is determined to eliminate her and Manuila. I was impressed by Akunin’s extensive use of material from Jewish sources throughout the story. The twists and turns of the tale are truly impressive, and one may find humor, pathos, rationalistic ratiocination, political intrigue, and spiritual mysteries nicely brought together. Melissa McShane says I'm not sure what I think about this book. On the one hand, Akunin is a master storyteller, and he keeps the tension high, alternating Pelagia's account of her journey through Russia and Palestine with that of the merciless killer stalking her. On the other, this mystery is very different from those of the first two books, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Pelagia is chasing a holy fool, a strange mystic with the power to read people's characters and change their behavior with a word. She's misdirected at every turn, with impostors and decoys muddying the waters of her investigation, and encounters other pilgrims to the Holy Land who keep turning up along the way. All of that makes for a good mystery. PDF File: Pelagia and the Red Rooster... 3 Read and Download Ebook Pelagia and the Red Rooster... What I'm not sure about is the ending, where Pelagia finally catches up with her quarry--and it turns out she's been after him not to solve the mystery of why people want him dead, but because of a mystical experience she herself had. The novel ends with a stunning development that rewrites Christian history and puts Pelagia on an unusual path--it reminds me a little of the ending of Life of Pi, actually--but I felt that it was the wrong kind of twist. Even so, I enjoyed it very much, and it was still an excellent ending to the trilogy. Lucy says Have rooster, will travel. M M says Boris Akunin's last of his Pelagia trilogy - Pelagia and the Red Rooster - is out. I haven't taken to this intrepid nun as much as to Erast Fandorin, Akunin's other great hero. But Akunin's declared that he is done with this series, and its ending is more bitter than sweet, for Pelagia, with her red hair and freckled face, her keen mind and impetuous enthusiasm, is a sympathetic character, and perhaps I have developed an affection for her. This book is more serious and polemic than Akunin's others, darker, and he paints a broad sweep of politics, religion, xenophobia, and the beginnings of the long war between Jews and Arabs in the Holy Land. It is written from the point of view of several characters: Pelagia, an assassin, the chief Prosecutor of Zavolsk (where Pelagia is from), and sundry other minor people who add considerable colour to the tale. Although Pelagia has been accused of betraying her spiritual vows with her constant seeking out of detective thrills, and despite her promise to desist, she is unable to give up the investigation of a series of murders that seem to be associated with a self-proclaimed messiah. An assassin, meanwhile, has been dispatched to kill both her and the messiah. True to the genre, the rot obviously starts at the top, but here it's not really corruption that's spreading across the Russian establishment but conservatism and religious fervour. Several myths combine in this tale. Pelagia makes a grand tour down the Volga and into Palestine where she finds the messiah, as one would expect of a heroine. Colleen says I don't know if I'd necessarily have someone start with Pelagia or recommend this series to friends. I think you'd have to be crazy not to like the Erast Fandorin books, but Pelagia is...different. One of the recurring troubles for Pelagia in this book made me think of a parallel to myself as well. The first impression she gives off to people is a rather ungainly, overly curious, red-headed unnattractive nun, but then a few days in her company and they're madly in love. So this happened to me too, so ironic. I find myself having to work with these novels and they're not exactly light, kick back, and have everything spelled out for you murder mysteries. Sometimes it can be annoying to put forth effort and hard to figure out what's going on or plowing through dense paragraphs, but Akunin is always enjoyable reading and the reader is always ultimately rewarded. You just have to savor his books. Also, it is worth it just for the pay off in this. I've been rolling what happens at the end around my brain now for days. I can safely say that with all my assiduous attention to this book, I did not see what happens at the end coming at all. So shocking I can't make up my mind if I like it or not...which probably means that it's PDF File: Pelagia and the Red Rooster... 4 Read and Download Ebook Pelagia and the Red Rooster... amazing and I should love it. Kris says On the surface, this book, part of a series by Akunin, is a mystery - a murder is committed, and the nun Sister Pelagia goes against her promises to her superiors to investigate.