Robert Wilson’s novel The Blind Man of Seville [ISBN 978 0 00 711781 9] is an intelligent, compelling and complex story of families, Spanish history, modern crime and art.The plot is fairly simple, but the rich double narrative (one of them a historical diary illuminating the life of the foreign legion and post-war Tangiers). A satisfying read.
Robert Wilson’s novel The Blind Man of Seville [ISBN 978 0 00 711781 9] is an intelligent, compelling and complex story of families, Spanish history, modern crime and art.The plot is fairly simple, but the rich double narrative (one of them a historical diary illuminating the life of the foreign legion and post-war Tangiers). A satisfying read.
The moody and idiosyncratic policeman, Javier Falcon, divorced from his wife and with his life in limbo, is called to a murder – or at least it looks like a murder-of a man bound and gagged and with his eyelids cut off. Mesmerised by the staring eyes Falcon becomes haunted by the case. The investigation sends him looking at his own past and into reading the shocking revelatory journals of his late father, a famous artist. Further murders and mutilations occur and Falcon is led inexorably to see what is happening.
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