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Back to Bologna
Back to Bologna
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4 August, 2005
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When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and relatively undemanding assignment. But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, immediately after publicly humiliating Italy's leading celebrity television chef, the case - intertwined with the fates of an earnest student of semiotics and a mysterious young immigrant who claims to be from Ruritania - spins out of control, and Zen is in no condition to rise to the challenge. There's also a wild card in the pack - Tony Speranza, Bologna's most flamboyant private detective. Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted, features a cast of vivid and idiosyncratic characters, and along the way delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571227754 |
| ISBN10 | 0571227759 |
| Number Of Pages | 240 |
| Item Weight | 421 g |
| Product Dimensions | 142 x 28 x 216 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | Second Impression |
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Clever. . . . It has wit, subtlety, a sense of mischief and exquisite cameos of Italy and Italians. - The Times (London) Back to Bologna is the sprightliest entry in the Zen oeuvre for a good few years...Barely a page goes by without a big laugh. . . . I can' t wait until Dibdin takes us [to Italy] again. - Daily Telegraph A clever mystery. . . . Pure pleasure from the first to the last. - The Evening Standard
Author's Bio
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947 and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He currently lives in Seattle and is the author of the intemationally bestselling Aurelio Zen series, including Blood Rain, And then You Die and, most recently, Medusa.