El secreto de los flamencos (The secret of the Flemish) blurbs

The secret of the Flemish narrates a discussion in art and in Occidental Philosophy. It’s about the relation between substance and accident but in the painting of Renascence scenario (and also: that one of the artistic geniality, the secret of technique – in the beginnings of modern technique-, of the mystery of perverse eroticism and that one of the rebuilding of period landscape). All of this with a fast prose (I mean, a modern one) and nice, legible and detailed: the classic author dream.

Ariel Schettini, Página 12

A novel about absolute power and its consequences to that one who want it, The secret of the Flemish enjoys in a completely way but left a worry in the reader which is always a proof of good literature.

Juan Ángel Juristo, ABC (Madrid, España)

Andahazi builds with real skill the streets and the corners of those times in which the passionate humanists lived. Love and the lowest passions are narrated with tension in the novel; a novel that asks an urgent reading. The detective tone contributes in the same way.

elcomercio.com

A borgean novel: The secret of the Flemish has historical information and pictorial and cultural references that support the action. Using erudition as a narrative material was a very common habit in Borges fictions. The reader can suspect about something borgean hidden in the novel, but this suspect becomes a fact with the explicit references to El Aleph. 

Sergio Olguín, Radar

The most enjoyable thing of any novel to become fussy about getting to the end. In The secret of the Flemish that is exactly what happens, with something else: at the last page begins another story in the readers head. Or rather, the reader begins to rebuild the novel he has just read to discover the moment its author, the Argentinean Federico Andahazi, has the skill to lead us where he wanted without troubles.

Diario Hoy (Ecuador)

A thriller written in a pictorial tone: Having as scenario Florence of Renaissance, the writer and psychologist built in The secret of the Flemish a plot in which nothing is what it seems to be. He recreates the imaginary world of portrays and we can see behind – not as in his other books – Freud spirit and presence. 

La Prensa

Federico Andahazi deals again with a historical time familiar to him. With a great imagination and a rigorous investigation work as its support, the novel – without falling into pretentiousness – has the perfect tone and rhythm to rebuild the atmosphere and emotions of each of both cities in which the plot take place, and to lead the reader into an increasing and captivating suspense.

Sandra Sofía, 3 puntos

Without doubt, Andahazi best book, the only best seller author of fiction that has produced Argentina in the last few years.

Pablo E. Chacón, La Primera (Chile)