Who Killed Palomino Molero? - Brossura

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571152163 ISBN 13: 9780571152162

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1989

Riassunto

Peru, 1950s. A young airman is found brutally murdered near an Air Force base in the northern desert. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma set out to investigate, hitching rides on chicken trucks and cajoling a cab driver into taking them to the crime scene. Without support from their superiors and with the base's commanding officer standing in their way, the case won't be easy. But they are determined to uncover the truth. Who Killed Palomino Molero? is an entertaining and brilliantly plotted detective novel. It takes up one of Mario Vargas Llosa's characteristic themes - how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.

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Recensione:

Evoking landscape and mores in writing that is spare, rich and cruelly beautiful, he both satisfies the requirements of the [detective fiction] genre and demonstrates that it too can resonate like any other form of fiction. (Richard Lourie New York Times)

Vargas Llosa's irony is agile and inspired. (Richard Eder Los Angeles Times)

Vargas Llosa gives a marvellous sense of provincial squalor, of dusty, brutish lives at the bottom. (Times Literary Supplement)

Descrizione del libro:

Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa is a captivating detective mystery by one of Latin America's finest storytellers.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0571152163
• ISBN 13: 9780571152162
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160