Writer Donna Leon (77) is adapting her latest work to the current corona pandemic. She quickly rewrote her latest crime thriller about Commisasario Guido Brunetti. The US writer told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that the Covid break was so huge that it could not be ignored.
The Covid break could not be ignored
This is why her Venetian investigator experienced the pandemic up close in his 30th case: "Brunetti shrinks in front of a train station full of tourists." However, since this situation will no longer be correct in 2021, she wants to describe the experience as a memory. "Now he avoids the train station because all tourists have disappeared and it is so strange to him," explains Leon, adding: "To this day, there is not a single detail in my books about the time of the action, there are no references to political, ecological or historical events. Brunetti lives in a timeless bubble. " But the Covid break is so powerful that it cannot ignore it.
She herself experienced the corona pandemic in Switzerland, which she is happy about: "I am 77 years old and do not want to be in a country where people my age are exposed to such high risks."
The 30th Brunetti thriller is scheduled to appear next year.