- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Vintage
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679779116
- ISBN-13: 978-0679779117
- Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 1.4 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,410,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Love the Zen, not the farce.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (Paperback)
Dibdin excels (usually) when Zen is the focus of his intricate and interesting plots. Unfortunately, he only carried me so far this time. Yes, it is a farce with great promise -- and Dibdin plays very well with the original Cosi fan tutte -- but in my humble opinion, he copped out in the last two chapters. The surreal resolution of the intricate set-up just didn't work for me, in part because his stylistic choice of the self-consciously ironic narrator did not produce a compelling description of the action and resolution of the plot. It was like seeing a play that should have been funny, but was poorly directed. With all of that being said, I of course went out and got the rest of the Zen books -- even when Dibdin fails, the results are better than most other stories out there!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Aurelio Zen is on a par with the best mystery characters,
By Georgiana Goodwin (Lyme, CT United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (Paperback)
Michael Dibdin's character Aurelio Zen is complex, richly drawn and utterly sympathetic. In each Zen mystery the reader gets both a tour of a specific part of Italy, and a dose of office politics not to be believed. And this is in addition to a wonderful crime story. There is never a clear line between good and evil, and the outcomes are never simple. Readers who like Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Robert Van Gulick and Elmore Leonard should love Michael Dibdin.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Italian Sit-com, complete with murder but no laugh track,
By Dom Miliano (Denville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (Paperback)
Dibdin takes a holiday of sorts and writes a comic opera set in Naples (today we could call this a sit-com). You have to really pay attention with Dibdin, but never more so than with this installment in the A. Zen sagas. We find our hero indolent in this southern port town stalked by love, murder, video games and incest. Dibdin takes us on a merry chase and somehow manages to bring it all together in the final (long) chapter. New comers to the Zen mysteries should not start with this book (try the Dead Lagoon) but long time fans will be caught up by the third page. You should read the chapter title translations to get the jokes as they are played out. All in all, a real hoot that captures the atmosphere of Naples today.
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