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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307275884

ISBN-139780307275882

eBay Product ID (ePID)48632014

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Book TitleBack to Bologna

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Thrillers / Psychological, Crime, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime

Publication Year2006

GenreFiction

AuthorMichael Dibdin

Book SeriesAurelio Zen Mystery Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-056363

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"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 Ýto Italy¨ again."-"Daily Telegraph" "A clever mystery. . . . Pure pleasure from the first to the last."-"The Evening Standard", " 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", "Clever. . . . It has wit, subtlety, a sense of mischief and exquisite cameos of Italy and Italians."The Times(London) "Back to Bolognais the sprightliest entry in the Zen oeuvre for a good few yearsÉBarely 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, "Clever. . . . It has wit, subtlety, a sense of mischief and exquisite cameos of Italy and Italians."The Times(London) "Back to Bolognais 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, "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

Series Volume Number10

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisIn 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 Bologna is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy., 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 Bologna" is dazzlingly plotted and delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today' s Italy., When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, immediately after publicly humiliating Italy's leading celebrity television chef.

LC Classification NumberPR6054.I26B33 2006