The Seville Communion
1995 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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The Seville Communion (Spanish: La piel del tambor, lit. 'The Drum Skin') is a 1995 thriller novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It follows a priest who is sent from the Vatican to Seville to investigate how a dilapidated church threatened by demolition may be connected to several mysterious deaths.[2]
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| Author | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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| Original title | La piel del tambor |
| Translator | Sonia Soto |
| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Alfaguara |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 1 April 1998[1] |
| Pages | 589 |
| ISBN | 8420482013 |
Reception
The New York Times called the book "good fun, as entertaining as it often is silly".[3]
The novel was the basis for the 2007 television serial Quart, el hombre de Roma and the 2022 film The Man from Rome.[4]
