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Las Sombras de Quirke / Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel

Las Sombras de Quirke / Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel

          
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El maestro irlandés y Premio Príncipe de Asturias sorprende con la mejor entrega de Black hasta la fecha. «La séptima entrega, Las sombras de Quirke, es tan magnífica como de costumbre. Si aún no ha conocido a Quirke, un patólogo alcohólico, prepárese para darse un atracón con los seis primeros y leérselos de golpe para poder echarle el guante a este.»
Isabella Biedenharn, Entertainment Weekly

Incapaz de guardar reposo pese a sus alucinaciones y desvanecimientos, Quirke regresa al trabajo en la morgue de Dublín. Es a él a quien llaman cuando aparece un cuerpo en el interior de un coche calcinado: todo apunta al suicidio de un funcionario advenedizo, pero Quirke no puede quitarse de la cabeza la sospecha de que algo no encaja. La única testigo se ha esfumado, han borrado todo rastro de ella.

Al reunir las piezas de su desaparición, el patólogo se ve atraído hacia las sombras del universo de las élites dublinesas: sociedades secretas y política eclesiástica de altos vuelos, políticos corruptos y hombres con mucho dinero que perder. Mientras la psicoanalista austriaca Evelyn Blake entra en su vida y en su corazón, la pista acaba por llevar a Quirke hacia su propia familia, y pasado y presente entran en colisión. Los crímenes de antaño han de permanecer ocultos, y Quirke ha agitado la telaraña.

La crítica ha dicho...
«Black sabe bien cómo tramar una novela negra cautivadora y llena de suspense.»
Publishers Weekly

«Un absoluto placer de principio a fin.»
Myles McWeeney, The Independent

«A Black jamás le preocupa que la trama oscile y que sus páginas transpiren una densa y maravillosa emoción con esa prosa suya tan reflexiva y sin prisas. Sus descripciones te atrapan.»
Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune

«Black da forma a una pieza de una meticulosa escritura que destaca por su palpable sentido de la ubicación, una paleta de personajes dibujada al detalle y un elocuente desenlace.»
Kirkus Reviews (lectura seleccionada)

«Benjamin Black tiene un don para los personajes de trazo fino y el detalle minucioso. La innegable excentricidad de Quirke lo dota de un encanto irresistible que mantiene al lector enganchado hasta el mismísimo final.»
Shelf Awareness

«En esta entrega de Quirke, sus sorprendentes encuentros permiten que se filtren unos breves rayos de sol.»
Library JournalENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Even the Dead---Benjamin Black's seventh novel featuring the endlessly fascinating Quirke---is a story of surpassing intensity and surprising beauty.A car crashes into a tree in central Dublin and bursts into flames. The police assume the driver's death was either an accident or a suicide, but Quirke believes otherwise. Then his daughter Phoebe gets a mysterious visit from an acquaintance, who later disappears. Phoebe asks her father for help, and Quirke in turn seeks the assistance of his old friend Inspector Hackett. Before long the two men find themselves untangling a twisted string of events that takes them deep into a shadowy world where one of the city's most powerful men uses the cover of politics and religion to make obscene profits.
About the Author: John Banville (Wexford, Irlanda, 1945) ha trabajado como editor de The Irish Times y es habitual colaborador de The New York Review of Books. Con El libro de las pruebas (Alfaguara, 2014) fue finalista del Premio Booker, que obtuvo en 2005 con El mar, consagrada además por el Irish Book Award como mejor novela del año. Entre su obra destacan también El intocable (Alfaguara, 2015), Los infinitos, la Trilogía Cleave -ciclo de novelas que incluye Eclipse (Alfaguara, 2014), Imposturas (Alfaguara, 2015) y Antigua luz (Alfaguara, 2012), uno de los mejores libros del año según la crítica española- y La guitarra azul (Alfaguara, 2016). Bajo el seudónimo de Benjamin Black ha publicado en Alfaguara, con gran éxito de público y de crítica, El lémur (2009), la serie de novela negra protagonizada por el doctor Quirke -El secreto de Christine (2007), El otro nombre de Laura (2008), En busca de April (2011), Muerte en verano (2012), Venganza (2013), Órdenes sagradas (2015) y ahora Las sombras de Quirke-, y La rubia de ojos negros (2014), en la que, por invitación de los herederos de Raymond Chandler, resucitaba al mítico detective Philip Marlowe. En 2011 recibió el prestigioso Premio Franz Kafka, considerado por muchos como la antesala del Premio Nobel, y en 2013 fue galardonado con el Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea, y, en España, con el Premio Leteo y el Premio Liber. En 2014 le fue otorgado el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, por «su inteligente, honda y original creación novelesca» y por «su otro yo, Benjamin Black, autor de turbadoras y críticas novelas policiacas».


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788420419480
  • Publisher: Alfaguara
  • Publisher Imprint: Alfaguara
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Series Title: Spanish
  • Weight: 453 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8420419486
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 155 mm

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