Books
by Frank Tallis
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Mortal Mischief - Book 1 of The Leiberman Chronicles |
During this strange limbo period, I caught up with Vienna Blood - based on the Liebermann Chronices - on BBC iPlayer - so I borrowed this. Sometimes the film version disappoints and indeed Mortal Mischief is very different from its screen incarnation - the cast, the plot and the setting are the same - fin de siecle Vienna creaking under the end of the Hapsburg regime, anti-semitism, protocol, Freud and Klimt - but the flavour of the two approaches refreshingly different; the result two very enjoyable experiences. I shall read more.
(Ferelith Hordon - bwl 97 Summer 2020) |
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