Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,Patrick Camiller: Southern Seas
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Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán,Patrick Camiller
Number of Pages: 217 pages
Published Date: 15 May 2012
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Country: Brooklyn, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781612191171
Download Link: Click Here
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Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho's radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman--a patron of artists and activists--is found dead after going missing for a year. In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell's wife to find out what happened. Carvalho, a jaded former communist, must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master.