Wolf on a String: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071YHJ98L |
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| Number of Pages | : | 149 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bit Banville/Black Fan But Disappointed I'm both a John Banville and a Benjamin Black fan, although I must say that I'm a Black completist and word-of-mouth generator in a way that I'm not for Banville's books. (Although, again, I'm a fan of both!). Having lived in Prague and spend time in Bohemia, I was thrilled to pre-order this title and then receive it last week.That thrill was quickly replaced by disappointment. Clearly, Banville/Black is a literary artist of the highest rank, and therefore his choices on how to plot . "Works both as historical fiction and as a murder mystery" according to Mal Warwick. Except for the title, which I found unfathomable, I enjoyed this novel immensely. The author, Irish writer and Booker-Prize-winner John Banville, writes murder mysteries under the pen name Benjamin Black. Wolf on a String is indeed a mystery, and a puzzling one at that, though it's more intriguing as historical fiction. It's the first of his novels I've read in that genre, but by no means the first he's written. In fact, the book's 16th-Century setting in Prague is fam. Molly b. said Disappointed. One word describes this book: Bad. The characters are poorly drawn. The same scene was repeated many times with a slightly different twist. I finished the book only because I thought it would get better. I was wrong! Benjamin Black/John Banville should stick with Quirke novels. At least he is an interesting character
Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born - or was, for her throat has been slashed. Rudolf, deciding that Christian is that rare thing - a person he can trust - sets him the task of solving the mystery of the woman's murder. And as he gets ever nearer to the truth of what happened that night in Golden Lane, he finally sees that his own life is in grave danger. From the spectacularly inventive Benjamin Black, Wolf on a String is a historical crime audiobook that delivers both a mesmerizing portrait of a lost world and a riveting tale of intrigue and suspense.. Best-selling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to 16th-century Prague and a story of murder, magic, and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in