Back to Bologna
Dibdin, Michael
Back to Bologna / Michael Dibdin - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed - New York : Vintage Books , 2006. - 223 p. ; 21 cm. - Vintage crime/Black Lizard .
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited, London, in 2005"--T.p. verso. "An Aurelio Zen mystery"--Cover.
In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy's culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxious for a break from his girlfriend, who attributes Zen's slow recovery from routine surgery to hypochondria, he is only too happy to take on what first appears to be an undemanding assignment. The case quickly spins out of control, becoming entangled with the fates of a student semiotics, a mysterious immigrant claiming to be royalty, and Bologna's most incompetent private detective. Meanwhile a prominent postmodern academic accuses Italy's leading celebrity chef of being a fraud.Back to Bolognais dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy.
9780307275882
2005056363
Zen, Aurelio (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Bologna (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6054.I26 / B33 2006
MYS DIB
Back to Bologna / Michael Dibdin - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed - New York : Vintage Books , 2006. - 223 p. ; 21 cm. - Vintage crime/Black Lizard .
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited, London, in 2005"--T.p. verso. "An Aurelio Zen mystery"--Cover.
In the latest installment in his critically acclaimed Italian mystery series, Michael Didbin sends Aurelio Zen to Italy's culinary capital, Bologna, where he discovers that some cases are not quite what they appear to be. When the corpse of the shady Bologna industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Aurelio Zen is summoned to oversee the investigation. Anxious for a break from his girlfriend, who attributes Zen's slow recovery from routine surgery to hypochondria, he is only too happy to take on what first appears to be an undemanding assignment. The case quickly spins out of control, becoming entangled with the fates of a student semiotics, a mysterious immigrant claiming to be royalty, and Bologna's most incompetent private detective. Meanwhile a prominent postmodern academic accuses Italy's leading celebrity chef of being a fraud.Back to Bolognais dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy.
9780307275882
2005056363
Zen, Aurelio (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Bologna (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PR6054.I26 / B33 2006
MYS DIB