Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #303 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-05
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Customer Reviews

A DREAM OF A BOOK
This is such a wonderful book. One of the best modern novels we've read in a long time! We're often a bit skeptical about the Richard and Judy shortlist, but this novel rises above the very average books published nowadays - wondefully written, living breathing characters, a gripping plot and a haunting quality that makes you live in the book and makes it stay with you for a long time afterwards. Highly recommended!

One of the best period novels of recent times
This book gripped me from the page one. The dark and sinister setting of fascist Spain in 1950's Barcelona, gives rise to some fantastic characters that keep you interested right through to the completetion of the story.

Huge disappointment
I realise that I'm among the few who are not impressed by this book. Nevertheless..., how could I be - the writing is so poor I really felt embarassed while reading, the characters and dialogs are stupidly overblown and not believable at all. Metaphors and idioms just made me laugh in the wrong places and the tears were near only times I realised this amateurish prosa received good reviews. My two stars exclusively for the presence of some good ideas in the story. Sadly enough - no ideas can ever unfold when the writing is that bad.