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Los nombres prestados / Alexis Ravelo.

Van Pelt Library PQ6718.A84 N66 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ravelo, Alexis, author.
Series:
Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) ; 490.
Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie Policiaca
Nuevos tiempos ; 490. Policiaca
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Assassins--Fiction.
Assassins.
Impersonation--Fiction.
Impersonation.
Spanish fiction--21st century.
Spanish fiction.
Genre:
Novels.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Physical Description:
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Madrid : Siruela, [2022]
Summary:
"Tomás Laguna podría perfectamente ser un corredor de seguros jubilado que ha llegado a Nidocuervo para disfrutar con tranquilidad de su retiro en compañía de su perro Roco. Y Marta Ferrer podría pasar por una traductora que ha encontrado en el pueblo el sitio ideal para vivir en paz con su hijo Abel. Pero lo cierto es que ambos son verdugos insomnes llegados a ese rincón del mundo con nombres prestados, fingiendo que no son quienes hasta hace poco han sido. Sin embargo, el equilibrio entre la realidad y la ficción que cada uno ha elegido para sí es tan frágil que sucesos tan fortuitos como una tormenta o la elección de una foto para la portada de un periódico resucitarán los fantasmas del pasado, devolviendo a sus vidas una violencia que esperaban haber dejado atrás para siempre. Situada a mediados de los años ochenta del siglo XX, Los nombres prestados es una historia de acción y suspense, un western moderno, una novela negra que funciona también como una alegoría que indaga en las causas y las consecuencias de la violencia política, en la vinculación entre víctimas y verdugos, en las obligadas paradas que habrá de hacer quien recorra el tortuoso camino hacia la redención."--Page 4 of cover.
Tomás Laguna could perfectly well be a retired insurance broker who has come to Nidocuervo to enjoy his retirement in peace with his dog Roco. And Marta Ferrer could pass for a translator who has found the ideal place to live in peace with her son Abel. But the truth is that both are insomniac executioners who have come to that corner of the world with borrowed names, pretending that they are not who they have been until recently. However, the balance between reality and fiction that each one has chosen for himself is so fragile that events as fortuitous as a storm or the choice of a photo for the front page of a newspaper will resurrect the ghosts of the past, returning to their lives a violence that they hoped to have left behind forever. Set in the eighties of the 20th century, The Borrowed Names is a story of action and suspense, a modern western, a crime novel that also works as an allegory that investigates the causes and consequences of political violence, in the relationship between victims and executioners, in the obligatory stops that those who travel the tortuous road to redemption will have to make.
Notes:
Winner of Premio de Novela Café Gijón, 2021.
"Premio de Novela Café Gijón 2021"--Back cover.
ISBN:
9788418859670
8418859679
OCLC:
1294308649

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