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The Blind Man of Seville [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

de Robert Wilson (Author), Sean Barrett (Narrator)
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After trying his hand at spy fiction in The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson returns to his detective-thriller roots with The Blind Man of Seville, a grimly bewitching and character-driven yarn about people confronting their most hidden horrors.

"It was only right that there should be at least one murder in Holy Week," muses Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón as he's called out during Spain's Semana Santa festivities to probe the death of a prosperous Seville restaurateur, Raúl Jiménez. The deceased was found strapped to a chair with his eyelids removed, facing a television on which had been showing a video of him entertaining prostitutes. Jiménez's heart had failed as he struggled to escape. This murder is "more extraordinary than any I have seen in my career," Falcón tells the businessman's widow, as he embarks on an investigation that will lead to the slayings of a hooker and an art dealer, and force the homicide cop into a game of wits against a killer obsessed with the contradictions between illusion and reality. Meanwhile, Falcón is himself obsessed with the long-secreted journals kept by his late father, a famous painter, whose brutal acts during the Spanish Civil War and subsequent hedonism in North Africa shaped Javier's life... and will make him the killer's next target.

Wilson's plot turns rather creakily on the coincidence of Falcón discovering a photograph of his father among Jiménez's things. And lengthy excerpts from the elder Falcón's diaries, while they reveal links between the book's secondary players, and are interesting for their portrayal of wartime Europe and postwar Tangier, nonetheless hobble this story's pace and distract from the modern crimes at its center. Still, there's a poetic edge to this author's prose that makes even his most gruesome or tragic scenes worthy of rereading, and in Javier Falcón--a lonely outsider who shadows his ex-wife and has a perplexing aversion to milk--he creates a police protagonist as satisfyingly and humanly flawed as any since Zé Coelho, from Wilson's outstanding A Small Death in Lisbon. --J. Kingston Pierce --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.



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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.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 A Brilliant Psychological Thriller, Juil 24 2008
Par Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Blind Man Of Seville (Paperback)
Javier Falcon book 1

Inspector Jefe Falcon is called to the home of Raul Jimenez, a successful and politically influential man in his 70s --- he had been tortured until he died of heart failure. The eyelids have been cut from the mutilated body by his killer so that he cannot avoid the images playing on his TV screen, this, triggers a reaction in Falcon that is something more than horror. The primary suspect at the outset is the widow, Dona Consuelo Jimenez. But the widow is certainly not the only suspect, perhaps the murderer came out of Raul's distant past.

Falcon is tormented by this murder, more than any other crime, as the case proceeds it strikes fear into his heart...what twisted mind could have committed such a gruesome act. During the investigation, he sees a link to his family, curious he consults his fathers journals revealing a dark past....

The pace in this book heightens when the journals are introduced and becomes a nail bitter as details are revealed. The author masterfully describes physical sensations: sights, smells and feelings are accomplished in a profound and disturbing way. Unfortunately, this novel includes a hefty dose of words and phrases from another language, a distraction that takes adjustment, a glossary or translation would have helped with the flow of the story. The author exploits fear to its maximum with fascinating exchanges between characters wanting to forget their painful memories and associations. The most lovable character is Falcon, he is breathtakingly lifelike.

This is a brilliant psychological thriller, an intellectual as well as frightening experience, one that draws you deeply into the subconscious texture of the plot. A wonderful read....
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Ah, Seville, Fév 4 2007
Par So Many Books, So Little Time (Yellowknife, NWT, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Blind Man of Seville (Hardcover)
A very good read - I am in the process of searching for Mr. Wilson's other books involving this book's main character, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon. What I enjoyed the most about this book are the descriptions of Seville - the street names, cafes, hotels, etc. My husband and I were very fortunate to travel to Seville two years ago and actually went to the very bull-fighting ring mentioned in the book. Mr. Wilson's description of the bullfight was just perfect and it took me back to the night we attended the fights.

I enjoyed the entire story, especially the journals. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Wilson's works.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Compelling, Nov. 9 2003
Par Dale F. Powers "idiosyncratic 53" (Walpole, MA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Blind Man of Seville (Hardcover)
The telling of the story draws you into the mind of Javier Falcon, police detective. As he is compelled to follow the path of his choice you are drawn along with him. The plot takes many disturbing twists but that is what makes it a must read. Obsession takes many forms in this story - human weaknesses that are nurtured by those with their own flaws for their own benefit.

The book can and will be unsettling, not because it is gory, but it is disturbing where the minds of the characters take you.

This book easily moved into my top 10.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 Mean-spirited and spiteful
I so thoroughly enjoyed Wilson's "A Small Death in Lisbon" and "The Company of Strangers" that I couldn't wait to get into this one. Read more
Publié le Déc 18 2003 par G. Patel

1.0étoiles sur 5 Complete darkness.
I am giving "The Blind Man of Seville" one star, but I could just as easily have given it five for the successful realization of a thriller. Read more
Publié le Mai 12 2003 par Candace

5.0étoiles sur 5 NONE SO BLIND...
THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE is a tour de force. Robert Wilson melds police procedural with psychological thriller as he leads the reader through the social, geographic, and historic... Read more
Publié le Avril 16 2003 par charles falk

5.0étoiles sur 5 Great thriller. Great setting. Great characters.
This, the new novel by the award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon, appears to have much going for it. Read more
Publié le Avril 3 2003 par RachelWalker

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Blind Man of Seville is a psychological police thriller
Robert Wilson obviously loves Spain and he brings the city of Seville to life. The culture, climate and cuisine all come together in a wonderous mix. Read more
Publié le Mars 2 2003 par C. D. Jensen

5.0étoiles sur 5 Not a blind read
The Blind Man of Seville is my first Robert Wilson book, but it won't be my last. Written in a manner that is engaging and just a little poetic, The Blind Man of Seville is... Read more
Publié le Fév 26 2003 par Robert Busko

4.0étoiles sur 5 Third Strong Book Proceed With Caution
I have read and commented upon the two previous novels offered to readers by Robert Wilson in The USA, "A Small Death In Lisbon" and "The Company Of Strangers". Read more
Publié le Janv. 19 2003 par taking a rest

4.0étoiles sur 5 a compelling read although not always suspenseful
Although things unfold a little slowly and in a rather sedate manner in "The Blind Man of Seville" -- this, in spite of the fact that the book is supposed to be a murder mystery... Read more
Publié le Janv. 18 2003 par tregatt

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