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Os Espiões (2009)

by Luis Fernando Verissimo(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Alfaguara

review 1: The premise is great: book editor takes a work of fiction for a real-life account of tragic events and intervenes. But all the virtues of Verissimo's Borges book are negated here: plotting is slight, clues lead nowhere, and, most importantly, the book-within-the-book that launches the plot is just not compelling enough to make believable all the commotion that it causes. Some appealing character vignettes and small town eccentricities here, but very little substance.
review 2: I had read the first chapter in the brazilian version of GRANTA, and I was really surprised!The book starts very well, you want to know more about the drunk editor who approves books depending on how hung over he is, about the mysterious girl who writes to the editor telling her story, ab... moreout the town the girl lives in, which apparently is now controlled by her husband and his brother.But as the story unfolds, it loses its strength. It an alright read, light and fun, but there's no substance after the first chapters, and by the end of the book, you don't even care about the characters. The feeling is that of a pretty, but juice less fruit. less

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