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Cargando... An Easy Thing (edición 1990)por Paco Ignacio Taibo II
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Mexican noir. I love it. ( ) Available in English as "An Easy Thing." I give this four stars for readers who know about Mexican history and politics, especially the 1970's. For lay readers simply looking for a good detective story, I would drop it down to three stars. The protagonist is a left wing private eye who is working on three cases at the same time. This is a brisk read. A triple mystery exploring Mexico: Taibo's shabby PI searches for Zapata still hiding in a cave, struggles against corrupt execs after an engineer gets offed and the union is taking over, and fights blackmailers who have sex pix of the normal suspects (govt officials) and movie stars. As you might have guessed, it's funny as hell. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely, the search for Emiliano Zapata, folk hero and leader of the Mexican Revolution, rumored to be alive and hiding out in a cave outside Mexico City. Combining black comedy, social history and a touch of surrealism, Paco Taibo's wonderfully idiosyncratic detective novels are admired the world over and are particularly popular in Europe and in the Spanish-speaking world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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