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| Original Title: | La tabla de Flandes |
| ISBN: | 0156029588 (ISBN13: 9780156029582) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Madrid(Spain) Madrid,1990(Spain) |
| Literary Awards: | Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Romans étrangers (1993), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (1996) |
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Paperback | Pages: 295 pages Rating: 3.79 | 17697 Users | 915 Reviews
Details Containing Books The Flanders Panel
| Title | : | The Flanders Panel |
| Author | : | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 295 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2004 by Mariner Books (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Crime. European Literature. Spanish Literature |
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While restoring a 15th-century painting which depicts a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight, Julia, a young art expert, discovers a hidden inscription in the corner: Quis Necavit Equitem. Translation: Who killed the knight? Breaking the silence of five centuries, Julia's hunt for a Renaissance murderer leads her into a modern-day game of sin, betrayal, and death.Rating Containing Books The Flanders Panel
Ratings: 3.79 From 17697 Users | 915 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Flanders Panel
Actually it is 3,5/5 stars but I didn't have the heart to put only 3 stars in this book!I loved it! This was a Goodreads recommendation based on my love of The Eight and it was dead on. The novel is a murder mystery played out as a game of chess on many levels linking the mysteries of the past to those of the present centered around a fifteenth century painting, aptly titled, The Game of Chess. Unlike The Eight, the story takes place in one time and city, though there is an element of magical realism as Julia gets so lost in her imaginings of the past that the painting pulls her
Loved it. Like the other one before. I really didn't see it coming :)
Half way into this book I was almost ready to give it up. However, some morbid curiosity kept me going. I still hoped that, somewhere along the last lines, there will be an unexpected series of events, a revelation, a smarter ending. But no, the flat characters lived up their predictable ending.Actually, I am wrong. Not all endings were so predictable. For Cesar, the ending was horrid. I could see that, throughout the book, the author does not think that highly of gay people or even women (they
For the most part "The Flanders Panel" was a disappointment. It was undoubtedly well-researched, but the plot didn't grab me. I never felt that tug pulling me to the book and forcing me to continue reading. I could put it down at any moment. I like this author, but I found this book cliched and shallow. The characters lacked depth, and there was a repetitive quality to the prose, so that I found myself correctly anticipating how a sentence would end. I had difficulty connecting with his world of
I had high hopes with this one. Alas!Flanders Panel opened up brilliantly and hooked me right in. Nonetheless, what started with arts and history culminates into a mundane anti-climax (You dont see such a miserable finale often). Pathetic!No spoilers here, but I cant help sharing a particularly foolish, absurd and downright annoying inference from such a sublime and graceful game of Chess. Hold your breaths and read this conversation between two characters:The mathematical aspect of chess, he
My friend Cathy (also a chessplayer) told me I had to read this, and she was indeed right. I couldn't put it down, and finished it in about a day. It's... well, what is it? I read it as a kind of postmodernist reimagining of Alice Through The Looking-Glass. Other books I immediately thought of were The Name of the Rose, Gödel, Escher, Bach and Luzhin's Defense. Formally, it's a very stylized murder mystery. Julia, the sexy but childlike Alice figure, is a Madrid art restorer. She receives an
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