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A nun embarrassed by the caresses of two young lovers; a gang of labourers who make a stand against their master; a group of republican prisoners in postwar prisons and an mixed race couple in a segregated area of the United States. These are some of the themes developed by Luisa Carnés, the great forgotten author of 27, in this first anthology of her stories.
In 1935, Manuel Bosch, a lawyer, became president of the Mixed Tribunal of the New Hebrides (nowadays Vanuatu), a remote archipelago in the South Pacific which at that time was contested by the British and the French. With this unusual task, Bosch left Barcelona in February 1936 to begin the long and exciting journey which is narrated in the book.
Three White Coffins is a thriller in which a solitary, unsociable guy is forced to take on the dentity of an opposition party leader and go through a variety of risky situations in an attempt to overthrow the totalitarian regme of a Latin American country called Miranda. This bizarre thriller plot is, however, a sort of empty structure, a skeleton in which the novel grows widly and unpredictably, gushing from the mouth of the hero. The outrageous, unhinged, hilarious narrator uses all his words to question, ridicule and destroy reality (and to reconstruct it like new from scratch).
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was a great master of terror : confined or open spaces, psychological stress or extraordinary events serve to create his personal way of narrating and constructing a new aesthetics through fear, an element which has been present in literature since its origins.
The unexplained murder of a young Russian woman in Stockholm puts the Säpo (the security, anti-espionage and anti-terrorism department of the Swedish police force) on red alert, and they immediately try to bring a smoke screen down around the crime.
This volume now brings together the three novels - El Inocente (The Innocent), La Tarde (The Afternoon) and El Ayudante del Verdugo (The Executioner’s Assistant) – published by Mario Lacruz during his lifetime. In their day, these novels met with equal success from the critics and the public.
On the 27 November 2012, the Spanish Embassy in Mexico has to notify Georgina Mir, as sole living relative, that her father, a famous archaeologist, has disappeared without trace three days before in Palenque, where he was carrying out an excavation.
I´ve spent the last ten years traveling the arc between Tripoli and Kabul, meeting the bombed, the prosecuted, the displaced… When war comes home, it knocks it down. It´s always a peculiar sensation to travel into situations that others are trying to leave. The signposts along the journey aren't places, but people, and they are constantly on the move.