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Bufo and Spallanzani

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I have read this book twice. I love Fonsecas' style, and I have (almost) all his books. I would not like to type a long comment because it is not necessary. Fonseca does not need to be introduced, you just have to read him and you will be pleased.

More than Just a Detective Thriller: Although its category may Detective thrillers, and that is what it is and definitely what I thought it was when I bought it, it just goes beyond the mere murder (suicide), police novel. It tells the story of a high class woman that is married to a very wealthy fellow, but that is unhappy, for whatever reason and starts seeing for whatever reason a writer that happens to become her lover, and is till the end the first suspicious person around. This novel is so amazingly good, that, while you turn chapter to chapter, you start living different lives, different people, and very different scenarios. Not boring at all. And let me tell you, its magnificent narration makes one understand that "Life is solely the fight between the pleasures of life, and facts of suffering". The author tries to tell us that we are all searching for pleasure, all the time and everywhere. However, even the most pleasurable things we can achieve, at the end we may de confronted by suffering that can beat any present or future joy that any of us expects. All of these incorporated into a very good detective scheme and with very, but very surprising end. Excellent.