I’m writing this book review in English, because there are some english-speaking folks I want to recommend the book to.
Scotsman Ian Rankin writes crime novels, and has been doing so for over two decades. His main work is a series of novels about John Rebus, a rather washed-up Edinburgh police detetive who, there are no nicer words to describe it, is an alcoholic. Now, his new series is coming along, starting with The Complaints.
Personally, I, as a German (Bavarian, actually), like reading books in English for two main reasons: If the book was originally written in English, I want to read the original version, because then I can enter the exact world the author describes. If I read a translated version, I feel blind, with someone trying to describe what’s around us as we stumble through the story. Now and then obvious translation errors spoil all the fun, usually false friends like “you must not”, which rather often gets translated into the German equivalent of “you may or may not”. The second reason is simply that I can keep up my own English. Back to the chase:
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