Off Side - Brossura

Montalban, Manuel Vazquez

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1612191150 ISBN 13: 9781612191157

Casa editrice: Melville House Pub, 2012

Riassunto

Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
 
Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. “The center forward will be killed at dusk,” reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho.
 
With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia?
 
Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain’s most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses—and limits—of power.

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Recensione

“The most original detective to come along in an age and the mix of political intrigue, Barcelona style, and Catalan cooking tips, makes for a great read.”
—Venue

“Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangled of mysteries.”                  
—Sunday Times
 
“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow.”
—Publishers Weekly
"A sharp observer of the high and the low."
—Detectives Beyond Borders

L'autore

Poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939–2003) was one of modern Spain’s greatest writers. A politically active leftist as a young man, he was jailed under Franco for four years for supporting a miners’ strike. As an adult, he also became a gourmand, and wrote often about food. His Pepe Carvalho series—set in Montalbán’s native Barcelona—has won international acclaim, including the Planeta prize (1979) and the International Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1981).
 
Ed Emery has also translated Mohamed Choukri, Antonio Negri, and Dario Fo.

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• Editore: Melville House Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1612191150
• ISBN 13: 9781612191157
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 275