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Cosi Fan Tutti: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
  

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de Michael Dibdin (Author), Michael Kitchen (Narrator)
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The career of Italian policeman Auerlio Zen has certainly had its operatic ups and downs: as a nasty colleague points out, "In Milan, you wrongfully arrest a man for the Tondelli murder, and 20 years later he tries to kill you after his release from prison. In Rome, you single-handedly 'solve' the Moro kidnapping, unfortunately too late to save the victim." So it's fitting that Michael Dibdin has used a real comic opera by Mozart and Lorenzo Daponte as the frame for his latest Zen outing. A Northern fish in Naples's polluted waters, Venetian-born Zen seems to have found the perfect job to make himself invisible, as head of the harbor police. But several tangled plots--including one that deftly turns the Daponte stew of unsuitable suitors and fake Albanians on its head--conspire to bring Auerlio into the spotlight one more time. Two of Dibdin's best Zen encounters, Ratking and Dead Lagoon, are available in paperback.

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Assigned to Naples, policeman Aurelio Zen takes time to assist a local wealthy widow: he refuses to let her daughters marry their supposedly Mafia-connected fiances. Soon involved in a case of murder and mistaken for Mafia himself, Zen plays out Dibdin's (Dark Spector, LJ 12/95) version of a darkly comic opera.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 Love the Zen, not the farce., Aoû 2 2001
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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!

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Aurelio Zen is on a par with the best mystery characters, Juil 16 2001
Par Georgiana Goodwin (Lyme, CT United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 An Italian Sit-com, complete with murder but no laugh track, Mars 5 2001
Par Dom Miliano (Denville, NJ USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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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5.0étoiles sur 5 Its about what you are not thinking
Da Ponte wrote a libretto for the opera the composer called "The School For Lovers". Michael Dibdin titles each chapter with a title from the libretto in Italian, and in the... Read more
Publié le Aoû 13 2000 par taking a rest

5.0étoiles sur 5 Not your average mystery
If you're expecting your traditional whodunit, this ain't it. Dibdin is definitely not a formula writer and it's impossible to know exactly what to expect when Aurelio Zen is... Read more
Publié le Aoû 6 2000 par NC

5.0étoiles sur 5 A detective story of character and humor
A literate and thoroughly enjoyable read if you like (a) opera, (b) Italy, (c) humor, or (d) classical Chandler/Hammet mysteries. Read more
Publié le Mai 19 2000

2.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointing
Mystery fans will be disappointed. Dibdin writes in an artsy rather than tensely suspenseful style, yielding self-consciously amusing ironies and operatic coincidences. Read more
Publié le Sep 24 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 What you always expected about Italy's cops, with a twist
Reading Aurelio Zen out of sequence is as sensible as the mystery in this book. And figuring out which of the several plot lines represents the mystery is half the fun... Read more
Publié le Oct. 23 1998 par A. Haas

4.0étoiles sur 5 Suspenseful crime novel with style!
Michael Dibdin has created a wonderfully clever, witty and suspenseful crime novel. He weaves the characters together seamlessly amidst the perplexing chaos and rhythm of... Read more
Publié le Oct. 7 1998 par stewart_glickman@lecg.com

5.0étoiles sur 5 A true image of Naples
This is the best of the Aurelio Zen mysteries. Zen is not your normal literary detective. He frequently has no more idea what is going on than the reader, and that is his... Read more
Publié le Sep 6 1998

5.0étoiles sur 5 Infused with a high form of wit and Mozartean musicality
Rather different than Dibdin's previous (and outstanding) Zen mysteries, Cosi is the closest thing to Mozartean opera buffa you can find in book form. Read more
Publié le Nov. 12 1997 par Bigbalagan

2.0étoiles sur 5 I can't believe this got good reviews.
Maybe it's just Dibdin I hate. His style is arch and becomes boring after a few chapters, there is no attempt at realism, and his detective is unintelligent and unlikable. Read more
Publié le Sep 21 1997 par ndancis@erols.com

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