{"id":819,"date":"2004-09-02T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/09\/the_flanders_pa\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T11:59:32","slug":"the_flanders_pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/the_flanders_pa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flanders Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago I finally got around to reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000678.html\">The Seville Communion<\/a>, and I must admit that it made me want to read more of Arturo Perez-Reverte&#8217;s work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099453959\">The Flanders Panel<\/a> is set in current day Madrid with our protagonist Julia, an art restorer, working on a painting that depicts a chess game from the fifteenth century, and a hidden message uncovered via x-rays that suggest that the match actually reveals who committed a murder several hundred years earlier. But on top of this, murders are taking place in contemporary Madrid, and they all seem tied into the same picture.<br \/>\nThis is probably the only novel I&#8217;ve read that included chess positions in the text, and to be honest if you sit back and think about it too much, the plot is a little mad. But in a strange Umberto Eco manner, I really enjoyed it. So roll on the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago I finally got around to reading The Seville Communion, and I must admit that it made me want to read more of Arturo Perez-Reverte&#8217;s work. The Flanders Panel is set in current day Madrid with our protagonist Julia, an art restorer, working on a painting that depicts a chess game from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}