The Shadow of the Shadow

Paco Ignacio Taibo II

ISBN 10: 1933693002 / ISBN 13: 9781933693002

Editore: Cinco Puntos Press, 2006

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<div><p><br> <i>The Shadow of the Shadow</i> follows four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City in 1922. They are a motley group&#8212;a gun-toting poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporter who churns out pages of copy &#8220;like links of sausage in a <i>chorizo</i> factory.&#8221;</p><p><br>Left to their own devices, the group would have waited out Carranza&#8217;s presidency in their own quietly besotted fashion, ignoring the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution. But they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers, and American industrialists.</p><p><br>Critics have hailed <i>The Shadow of the Shadow</i> as the best of Paco Ignacio Taibo II&#8217;s historical novels. Issues of oil, American imperialism, extortion, and government corruption give the novel a distinctly contemporary ring.</p></div>

Informazioni sull?autore: <div>Paco Ignacio Taibo II is most well known for his mystery series with Hector Balascor&#225;n Shayne. He participated in the Student Rebellion that led to the infamous Massacre of 1968 Besides his novels, he is known for non-fiction books, most importantly his books including Guevara, Also Known as Che (St. Martin's) and '68 (Seven Stories Press.)</div>

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Titolo: The Shadow of the Shadow
Casa editrice: Cinco Puntos Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2006
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good