Title: Madrid: Agreed! One star is one too many.
Product review: Message from Tokyo to Madrid on Gerardi's attempt at a novel: you're dead-on solid, mate! Bloody bollocks, who is this chappie trying to fool? Shifts a ghost story from one continent to another, tosses in Venice for exotic local color--guess Brooklyn only works once, eh, Gerardi--and follows the plot of Madeline's Ghost like a cat in Venice follows rats. Now there's a novel idea: a cat's ghost, female cat of course, reappears after eight centuries and reintroduces the bubonic plague, ah the Dread Black Death, to all of Italy! Back to dead writers for me, whose work is far more alive than that of too many contemporary novelists, including Gerardi. Madrileno, whoever you are, God bless you and keep your head to the sky. Viva Espana! Viva Hemingway! Viva Madrid y Tokyo!
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