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Cargando... Velvet Was the Night (2021 original; edición 2021)por Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Autor)
Información de la obraVelvet Was the Night por Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Digital audiobook performed by Gisela Chipe Adapted from the book jacket: 1970s, Mexico City, Maite is a secretary who live: the latest issue of Secret Romance. When her next-door neighbor, Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman – and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents. Meanwhile, someone else is also looking for Leonora. Elvis is an eccentric criminal who longs to escape his own life. As Maite and Elvis come closer to discovering the truth behind Leonora’s disappearance, they can no longer escape the danger that threatens to consume their lives. My reactions: This is the third book by Moreno-Garcia that I’ve read and by far my favorite. In this work she does NOT include paranormal, horror, or magical realism elements. Rather she writes a wonderful noir crime novel based on historical events in Mexico, with interesting characters, multiple twists and turns in the plot and an unlikely partnership that I’d love to see again. Maite starts as a somewhat naïve, dreamy young woman, more interested in romance stories that what is actually happening around her. But once she’s caught up in the mystery of her missing neighbor, Maite shows her intelligence, grit and determination. Elvis is a marvel. A street punk and henchman, who love literature and music. He’s not sure he is where he wants to be in life and the events that unfold help him find a better life path. The action is fast and furious, and totally believable. Well done, Ms Moreno-Garcia! Gisela Chipe does a marvelous job of performing the audiobook. I particularly loved how she interpreted Maite. Mexico City in the 1970s is such a gritty and crazy backdrop for this awesome pulp noir story. Amazing characters, political upheaval, an evil paramilitary boss, and when a mysterious beautiful neighbor vanishes, loner Maite suddenly is a part of much more than her comic book romances provide. Filled with just the right amount of tension and suspense this was a wonderful read. It reminded me a lot of the movie True Romance. Set in the 1970s in Mexico City, Velvet Was the Night follows what happens when lonely, bored secretary Maite and low-level enforcer Elvis are caught up in the events surrounding the disappearance of Maite's politically active neighbour, the art student Leonora. I enjoyed this more than another novel of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's that I've read, Mexican Gothic, but less than Gods of Jade and Shadow. It's readable with a decent sense of place, but I never found myself particularly invested in the characters or in the resolution of the mystery surrounding Leonora—since neither Maite nor Elvis really know her, neither of them are personally invested in what's happened to her, and I think that had a knock-on effect on the novel's sense of urgency. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia. Y cuando esta desaparece en extrañas circunstancias, Maite no puede evitar empezar a buscarla, sumergiéndose en la vida secreta de su vecina; una vida de estudiantes radicales y disidentes. Pero hay alguien más que está buscando a Leonora. Lo hace por encargo de su jefe, una persona sombría que envía a grupos de matones a aplastar a los activistas políticos. Elvis es un delincuente excéntrico que sueña con escapar de su propia vida: es reacio a la violencia y le encantan las películas antiguas y el rock and roll. Mientras Elvis busca el paradero de la mujer desaparecida, empieza a observar a Maite; y cada vez se obsesiona más con esa mujer que comparte su amor por la música y la soledad de su corazón.Cuando Maite y Elvis se acerquen a la verdad tras la desaparición de Leonora, tendrán que hacer frente a los peligros que amenazan con destruir sus vidas, con matones, agentes del Gobierno y espías rusos intentando proteger ciertos secretos a punta de pistola. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Would pair so well with My Sister the Serial Killer and Kindred (time travel) in a Gender and Genre course. ( )