COSI FAN TUTTI. (SIGNED)

DIBDIN, Michael.

ISBN 10: 0571179207 / ISBN 13: 9780571179206

Published by Faber And Faber, London, 1996

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8vo. pp 400. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered white on spine. Signed by the author on the title page. ISBN: 0571179207 Slight lean, otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C45581

Bibliographic Details

Title: COSI FAN TUTTI. (SIGNED)

Publisher: Faber And Faber, London

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

In the fifth of the Aurelio Zen series, Zen finds himself in Naples, in disgrace - and having the time of his life. Corrupt politicians, shady business men and eminent mafiosi are disappearing off the streets at an alarming rate, but Zen's commitment to his work is at an all-time low.

Review:

The career of Italian policeman Auerlio Zen has certainly had its operatic ups and downs: as a nasty colleague points out, "In Milan, you wrongfully arrest a man for the Tondelli murder, and 20 years later he tries to kill you after his release from prison. In Rome, you single-handedly 'solve' the Moro kidnapping, unfortunately too late to save the victim." So it's fitting that Michael Dibdin has used a real comic opera by Mozart and Lorenzo Daponte as the frame for his latest Zen outing. A Northern fish in Naples's polluted waters, Venetian-born Zen seems to have found the perfect job to make himself invisible, as head of the harbor police. But several tangled plots--including one that deftly turns the Daponte stew of unsuitable suitors and fake Albanians on its head--conspire to bring Auerlio into the spotlight one more time. Two of Dibdin's best Zen encounters, Ratking and Dead Lagoon, are available in paperback.