The Haunting of Tram Car 015
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P. Djeli Clark
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P. Djeli Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of A Dead Djinn in Cairo, with the otherworldly adventure novella The Haunting of Tram Car 015.
Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.
©2019 P. Djeli Clark (P)2019 Recorded Books
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher4 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Redhead
- 01.12.2021
Wieder wunderbar
Tolles alternatives Universum, auch den Schauplatz nach Kairo zu legen finde ich immer wieder gelungen. In diesem Teil sind es andere Protagonisten, doch wieder sind sie schön ausgearbeitet. Toll ist auch das geschichtliche Ereignis das hier vonstatten geht und der Geschichte eine besondere Tiefe verleiht. Unbedingt empfehlenswert.
Ich empfinde es im übrigen als sehr angenehm dass es eher zu den kurzen Büchern gehört, denn oft geht Qualität nicht mit Quantität einher. Ich genieße eine auf den Punkt gebrachte Story deutlich mehr als eine künstlich in die Länge gezogene.
Zum Sprecher: schöne Verkörperung der Figuren, auch wirklich schöne Akzente, aber seine Tendenz das Satzende oft komisch zu betonen ist teilweise etwas enervierend.
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Gesamt2 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher3 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte1 out of 5 stars
- negativetoo
- 24.07.2023
Good idea miserable execution
The idea feels good - supernatural events in a slightly divergent steampunk Cairo..I had high hopes for this..but sadly they got dashed like a clockwork penguin trying to fly...
The characters
The Protagonists Agent Osim and Agent Ahmet stay total blanks.. oh yes one has a moustache (and that is all the information we get ) , the other has nine sisters, studied in Oxford for unknown reasons, and likes sweets.What they do in their spare time, where they live, whether they smoke, prefer stuff dislike habits or smells or whatever. it stays a blank
Notably all the male characters are dumb (despite years of experience ) , need constant explanation on everything by the women they meet (my partner called it girlsplaining. Yes felt obnoxious to the lady of the house... ) - who are universally wise, smart, very knowledgable, never admit to being wrong and being lavished with descriptive and veberating lines of text about their dresses, looks, grace and character and overall greatness. Something notably absent from all males in the story.
To be honestly, this would feel quite weird if it was reversed... esp. given that the other work of the author features a female agent in muslim, "awakened" Cairo in the early 20th century...
The Setting :
While Cairo in the 1910s feels uncommon and exotic, which is utterly appreciated, this version of Cairo unfortunately is "I wish for a cake".. in 30 years it has transformed from a crowded, backwater city inland and off any traderoutes into a bustling metropolis, center of commerce and trade, scientific progress and overall "cool cat of the arabic world"... makes you wonder why that has not happened to other cities in the region, say Istanbul, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran.... Trade and wealth and justice for all suddenly appear, making everyone rich and prosperous and wealth is equally shared.... sounds a bit like fantasy ? it sure does, just the very improbable kind of fantasy
Why has a traditional muslim nation chosen to go full constitutional monarchy, after gaining independence through magical, folkloristic means ? Magical traditions that are mostly non-egyptian but arabic in origin ? What has happened to religion and traditional believes ? Why have the old gods suddenly made a reappearance after three millenia ? What has kept the magic away from humanity for millenia ?
The setting raises far more question than it answers, and is unable to explain anything in the slightest, arbitrarily deciding that things have to be one way, the authors way and that's it...
It's a glitzy pony and PLEASE do not look to closely or question anything. Being inquisitive is bad for the consumer.
The Story
Well a haunted tram, build by Djinn as an autonomous clockwork device with a ghostlike presence that attacks the passengers ? Sounds enticing ! Steampunk, here we go..
But then the investigators are inept and clueless, carry no authority with anyone (and arbitrarily have to outsource to independent parties for essential help ), and progress is only made through "deux ex machina" random help from knowledgeable women. Yes, the waitress in the Café we visit has the solution for all of the problems of the case. I am not kidding : Asking the waitress is the key !
She is incidentally also the squeeze (simply quoting Chandler here) of the protagonist in the author's other work (which you only get if you read that one) . So lucky they ran across her in a city of several million ! She of course has perfect and infallible knowledge and some weird meta-theories on evil spirits in folklore which are very 21st century.
The "heroes" progress only through random chance, not through any of their own efforts or deductions. there is nothing to overcome, there is no journey, there is no drama.
Silly stuff like smuggleing of foreign luxury sweets. clockwork automata which spontaneously develop sentience if you talk to them for extended time or the foregone background event of the Egyptian suffragettes movement's struggle for the female vote, (Silly because since no one actually opposes it...which I find... mildly fantastic ) distract more than actually adding depth and detail to the story,
The Story that is never spooky, mysterious, sufficiently vague or ever threatening . All of which I expect from a "haunted tram" story. Seems to much to ask
The story scores all the points on "Zeitgeist" and "post-colonialism" but strikes out in logic, historic coherence or research into the structures of society.
So one has to decide whether one wants a good TALE well told or score cookie points with the liberal Zeitgeist. I cherish a good story, so 1/5 from me
I feel very sorry for the huge chance missed on this: Lucky I did not pay 10 euros for this, but got it as part of audible
The reader is fine, but his diction and distinct drawl was distracting, esp to my partner
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