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Blind Man of Seville, The
A leading restaurateur is found bound, gagged and dead in front of his TV. When confronted by this horrific scene, the normally dispassionate homicide detective Javier Falcon is inexplicably afraid. What could be so terrible? author: Wilson, Robert; publisher: HarperCollins
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HarperCollins The Blind Man of Seville
The very title <I>The Blind Man of Seville</I> raises some of the most interesting questions in this original thriller, which breaks the mould of the police procedural far more than seems likely in its seemingly conventional early pages. <p>A series of men and women are killed by torture and their eye-lids or eyes taken from them in the process--but they die if anything of an excess of sight, of being forced to watch the unendurable. As Inspector Falcon does the legwork of the case, and gets more and more teasing messages about sight and light from the ingenious and vicious killer, we find ourselves wondering whether he himself is the blind man, if there is something he is refusing to see. <p>At the same time, he is clearing the studio of his dead painter father, and reading journals containing a horribly plausible version of the man he thought he knew--a bisexual gangster who fought for Fascism and the Nazis in Spain and Russia. And around him Seville is having its intense and bizarre Holy Week celebrations, with bullfights and with vast puppets of sacred figures looming around the streets.<p> This is a book of surreal intensity which plays by all the rules of the detective novel and yet gives the reader so much disturbingly more. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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ISIS Audio Books The Blind Man of Seville
The very title <I>The Blind Man of Seville</I> raises some of the most interesting questions in this original thriller, which breaks the mould of the police procedural far more than seems likely in its seemingly conventional early pages. <p>A series of men and women are killed by torture and their eye-lids or eyes taken from them in the process--but they die if anything of an excess of sight, of being forced to watch the unendurable. As Inspector Falcon does the legwork of the case, and gets more and more teasing messages about sight and light from the ingenious and vicious killer, we find ourselves wondering whether he himself is the blind man, if there is something he is refusing to see. <p>At the same time, he is clearing the studio of his dead painter father, and reading journals containing a horribly plausible version of the man he thought he knew--a bisexual gangster who fought for Fascism and the Nazis in Spain and Russia. And around him Seville is having its intense and bizarre Holy Week celebrations, with bullfights and with vast puppets of sacred figures looming around the streets.<p> This is a book of surreal intensity which plays by all the rules of the detective novel and yet gives the reader so much disturbingly more. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I>
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