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Sister Pelagia
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Sister Pelagia is the second (after Erast Fandorin) book series by Boris Akunin to be published in English. Described by Adam Woog as "Father Brown, Russian-style", it follows the adventures of the eponymous Russian Orthodox nun who has excellent deductive skills and is often employed by her superior Bishop Mitrofanii to solve crimes.The series consist of three books: Pelagia and the White Bulldog Pelagia and the Black Monk Pelagia and the Red Rooster (published in US as Pelagia and the Red Cockerel) | |
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Ominous Hair Loss | |
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Ominous Hair Loss: The monks inhabiting a holy island hermitage see hair loss as a mark of God's approval and, indeed, often pass away quickly after it sets in. This is because the island hosts a highly radioactive meteorite, and the monks are actually dying of radiation poisoning — in the end, even the Big Bad (who has been hiding out on the island for half the book) starts losing hair, indicating that he may not live long, even if he escapes from justice. | |
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Delighting in Riddles | |
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Delighting in Riddles: Naina almost always speaks in riddles, mainly for the purpose of intriguing everyone around her (especially the opposite sex): | |
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The Redeemer | |
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The Redeemer: In Sister Pelagia and the Red Rooster, the eccentric rabbi Emmanuel has the uncanny ability to bring out the best nature of everyone he meets. Combined with his extraordinary perception bordering on mind-reading, it leads to situations like when he completely reforms a hardened killer with a few gentle words while the latter is taking aim to assassinate him. Of course, none of this is surprising, as the novel all but spells out that Emmanuel is actually the time-traveling real-world prototype of Jesus. | |
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Love Freak | |
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Love Freak: Emmanuel/Manuila firmly believes in The Power of Love. | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: The first book is a classical detective story; the second one introduces aspects of "Scooby-Doo" Hoax and science fiction, and the final one involves mystic elements (in Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane fashion). | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax | |
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"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: The Black Monk is actually a disguise worn by two different people for different purposes (one of them is trying to scare people away from a meteorite in order to save them from radiation's dangerous effects, while the other wants the meteorite for himself). | |
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Cuckoosnarker: Emmanuel appears to be childishly naive and a Wide-Eyed Idealist, but sometimes demonstrates irony and comes up with sharp witticisms: | |
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Magical Homeless Person | |
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Magical Homeless Person: Emmanuel, the enigmatic wandering prophet with the uncanny ability to read in people's hearts that borders on telepathy and a bunch of other unusual talents (as demonstrated when he makes a mute girl speak again, and reforms a hardened killer by unveiling his "child's face"). None of that is surprising, as the novel implies that Emmanuel is actually the time-traveling real-world prototype of Jesus. | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit | |
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Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Lentochkin pretends that he was a victim of the Black Monk and was driven to insanity due to being Buried Alive by him; in reality, he is the Black Monk. | |
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Eccentric Mentor | |
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Eccentric Mentor: Emmanuel. | |
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The Ophelia | |
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The Ophelia: Naina loves to present herself as one, though it's largely a show-off; lampshaded by her brother. | |
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Speaks in Shout-Outs | |
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Speaks in Shout-Outs: The hermit monks on the Canaan Island in Pelagia and the Black Monk are not allowed to speak at all, but their prior may utter five words a day, four of which must be a quote from the Bible. | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi: The eccentric rabbi Emmanuel is implied to be the time-traveling real-world prototype of Jesus (i. e. a Jew from the first-century Galilee). However, he also has a lisp and mannerisms reminiscent of stereotypical depictions of Ashkenazi Jews. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The third book. It is never made clear what actually happened to Pelagia, and whether or not the cave was a Time Machine. | |
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Color Animal Codename: White Bulldog and Red Rooster. | |
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Speech Impediment: Emmanuel, while being an Omniglot, seems to have this in virtually every language he speaks: in Russian, he has pwofound twouble with his w's, and his Hebrew is described as similar to "the clucking of a bird". | |
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Character Tics: The eccentric prophet Emmanuel aka Manuila probably has a habit of scratching his leg (it is mentioned twice: once he "scratched his calf", and at another time he "was standing on one leg, scratching his ankle with the other foot"). | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Lentochkin, in the second book; subverted, since it is implied that the radiation from the meteorite pieces he stole will eventually kill him. | |
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Cloudcuckoolanguage: In Pelagia and the Red Rooster, the eccentric rabbi Emmanuel is also noted to have very quirky speech patterns: | |
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Obfuscating Insanity | |
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Obfuscating Insanity: Lentochkin. | |
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Loon with a Heart of Gold | |
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Loon with a Heart of Gold: Emmanuel is a saintly mad prophet who possibly has supernatural powers and makes people whom he meets understand their flaws and change for the better. | |
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Magical Jew | |
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Magical Jew: Emmanuel is an eccentric rabbi with supernatural powers who makes people realise their flaws and change for the better. | |
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Sexier Alter Ego | |
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Sexier Alter Ego: For the needs of her investigations, Pelagia often has to disguise herself as her own sister, wearing alluring female clothing and even flirting with men. | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Emmanuel; Naina also has elements of this, mixed with Femme Fatale. | |
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Naked Nutter | |
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Naked Nutter: In Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk, when Lentochkin pretends to have been drive mad from the revelation of the eponymous Black Monk, he strips himself naked and violently fights off any attempt to clothe him again — which is very convincing in the ultra-conservative 19th century provincial Russian society of the book. Later on, Pelagia unwittingly supports his crazy act by discovering that the Black Monk traps his victims in coffins, inducing extreme Claustrophobia, which, in Lentochkin's case, is made to appear to be triggered by merely wearing clothes. | |
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Only Sane by Comparison | |
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Only Sane by Comparison: In Sister Pelagia and the Red Rooster, Emmanuel (aka Manuila) is a a quirky religious prophet with peculiar speech mannerisms. However, compared to the others who are either religious extremists of various sorts (such as the fanatical Russian Orthodox Pobedin) or just plain weirdos (such as a bunch of Camp Gays who rebuilt and inhabited the biblical Sodom, and are planning to rebuild Gomorrah for lesbian women), Emmanuel appears one of the most sane, not to mention kind-hearted. | |
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