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Montalban Manuel Vazquez

An Olympic Death (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)

Serpent's Tail

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“One of the finest examples of European ‘noir’ literature.” —John Harvey

“Pepe Carvalho is a true original.” —The Times (London)

As private investigator Pepe Carvalho cruises the backstreets of Barcelona, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier town hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.

Manuel Vázquez Montálban was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers. He died in 2003.

Southern Seas (A Five Star Title)

Serpent's Tail

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"Montalban writes with authority and compassion - a Le Carré-like sorrow." --Publishers Weekly
Barcelonas

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Barcelona, the exuberant capital of Catalonia and host of the 1992 Olympics, is here explored and exposed by its greatest contemporary author. Manuel Vazquez Montalban's anecdotal history takes us on an imaginary tour of the city, from its most secret corners to its most famous monuments. An erudite and impassioned guide, Montalban finds a controversy in every building, a story in every street, illuminating the city's rich history and turbulent politics, its art, gastronomy and football. There are many Barcelonas, and Montalban knows them all: the lavish art-nouveau houses in Vallvidrera where he himself lives; the labyrinthine squalor of the Barri Xino, setting for Genet's Thief's Journal; the Barri Gotic where the independent Catalan Kingdom between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries created a nationalist consciousness which has endured for half a millennium; the oneiric Parc Guell, designed by the city's most celebrated architect, Antoni Gaudi. But this definitive survey is one unlikely to be endorsed by the Oficina de Turismo. For Montalban is fiercely critical of the values of the new 'Olympic' Barcelona: the misery of the inner-city slums where one person dies every second day from a heroin overdose; the speculation which has compounded overcrowding in a metropolis with the highest population density in Europe; the ravaging of working-class suburbs to make way for an aseptic international centre. Once Europe's most utopian city, Barcelona, he argues, 'has become a market, and everything is up for sale'. For visitors, Barcelonas will prove a stimulating, indispensable companion. And for everyone interested in art and architecture, politics and sport, it will provide an enthralling introduction to the great European city.
The Buenos Aires Quintet (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery)

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Assignment: Finding one of Argentina's 30,000 "Disappeared" ... likely outcome: Becoming one yourself.


The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate one of the vanished, even if that missing person is his cousin. But blood proves thicker than a fine Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon, even for a jaded gourmand like Pepe, and so at his family's request he leaves Barcelona for Buenos Aires.

What follows is perhaps Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's masterpiece: a combination white-knuckle investigation and moving psychological travelogue. Pepe quickly learns that "Buenos Aires is a beautiful city hell-bent on self-destruction," and finds himself on a trail involving boxers and scholars, military torturers and seductive semioticians, Borges fans and cold-blooded murderers.

And despite the wonders of the Tango and the country's divine cuisine, he also knows one thing: He'll have to confront the traumas of Argentina's past head on if he wants not only to find his cousin, but simply stay alive. 

Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)

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"One of the finest examples of European 'noir' literature."—John Harvey

"Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow."—Publishers Weekly

Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-Marxist, and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of indentifying it is through a tattoo that says "Born to raise hell in hell."

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers. He died in 2003.

Galindez

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In the 1980s, an American Ph.D. candidate uncovers new facts about the 1956 kidnapping, torture, and murder of Jesus de Gali+a7ndez, a Basque refugee and critic of the Domincan Republic's Trujillo regime.

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Università IUAV di Venezia - ExibArt
ExibArt, Italy - Jun 03, 2009
Università IUAV di Venezia delle nostre sensorialità ci avvia a percorsi di salutare riflessione. Non siamo di fronte alle amate ricette immorali di Manuel Vazquez Montalban, ma stiamo intraprendendo un'inversione etica che nel piacere attiva la dorsale del Pane della vita.

Maruja Torres: "Tener como amigos a Terenci y Vázquez Montalbán ... - El Almería
El Almería, Spain - May 22, 1863
Maruja Torres: "Tener como amigos a Terenci y Vázquez Montalbán Torres habló mucho de sus grandes amigos Terenci Moix y Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. "Yo empecé a escribir la novela 'Esperadme en el cielo, dado que dos de mis grandes amigos generacionales, de los que había aprendido de todo, se habían marchado a un

Silvina Friera - Página 12
Página 12, Argentina - May 30, 2009
Silvina Friera - Página 12 Página 12Silvina FrieraEl relato que construye el documental, con la voz de Mario, pero también a través de los testimonios de Eduardo Galeano, Juan Gelman, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, José Saramago, Idea Vilariño, Joan Manuel Serrat y la participación especial de Miguel Angel

La esquina de un icono hispanoamericano - El País (España)
El País (España), Spain - May 23, 2009
La esquina de un icono hispanoamericano particular con España a través de Joan Manuel Serrat o la simpatía misma de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán son avales altamente cualificados para que su nombre resuene entre tantísimos lectores de la izquierda sensible pero algo decapitada de símbolos.

El Barça - Granada Hoy
Granada Hoy, Spain - May 22, 1210
El BarçaUna magnífica combinación de letra y música. Letra que algunos durante un tiempo atribuimos equivocadamente a Vázquez Montalbán cuando en realidad pertenece a Josep Maria Espinàs y Jaume Picas. La música es de Manuel Valls. Ese nuevo y pegadizo himno