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The blind man of Seville
Wilson, Robert
Adult Fiction WILSON
From Publishers' Weekly:
Proving that even the most talented authors can have an off day, Wilson (A Small Death in Lisbon, etc.) has come up with a long, dense, often brilliantly written but finally off-putting and depressing story, which starts with the grisly murder of a Seville restaurant tycoon. Parts of the novel work wonderfully: an interview between Javier Falc"n, the chief of Seville's homicide squad, and the victim's young widow, crackles with wit and electricity as she gets more out of him than he does out of her. And Falc"n (whose late father, a famous painter, had links to the dead tycoon going back to their days in the Foreign Legion in Tangiers during the Spanish Civil War) is often a fascinating figure-when he's not imploding with the weight of his discoveries about his father's past or the stress of his job and a recently failed marriage. Descriptions of a ranch where fighting bulls are bred and of a bullfight are worthy of Hemingway, as are scenes from life in Seville during Holy Week. But in the end, there's too much blood, too many old journals, too much torture and depravity to absorb and process into art and/or entertainment. (Feb. 3) FYI: A Small Death in Lisbon won a CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
Trust the author of A Small Death in Lisbon to come up with another quirky thriller. Even as he investigates a bizarre serial killer who divests victims of their eyelids, Detective Inspector Javier Falc"n rediscovers his father through his journals. Of course, the killer and the journals end up connecting. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Wilson, Robert
Adult Fiction WILSON
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Proving that even the most talented authors can have an off day, Wilson (A Small Death in Lisbon, etc.) has come up with a long, dense, often brilliantly written but finally off-putting and depressing story, which starts with the grisly murder of a Seville restaurant tycoon. Parts of the novel work wonderfully: an interview between Javier Falc"n, the chief of Seville's homicide squad, and the victim's young widow, crackles with wit and electricity as she gets more out of him than he does out of her. And Falc"n (whose late father, a famous painter, had links to the dead tycoon going back to their days in the Foreign Legion in Tangiers during the Spanish Civil War) is often a fascinating figure-when he's not imploding with the weight of his discoveries about his father's past or the stress of his job and a recently failed marriage. Descriptions of a ranch where fighting bulls are bred and of a bullfight are worthy of Hemingway, as are scenes from life in Seville during Holy Week. But in the end, there's too much blood, too many old journals, too much torture and depravity to absorb and process into art and/or entertainment. (Feb. 3) FYI: A Small Death in Lisbon won a CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
Trust the author of A Small Death in Lisbon to come up with another quirky thriller. Even as he investigates a bizarre serial killer who divests victims of their eyelids, Detective Inspector Javier Falc"n rediscovers his father through his journals. Of course, the killer and the journals end up connecting. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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