The Uncomfortable Dead: (What's Missing Is Missing) - Couverture souple

Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II; Marcos, Subcomandante

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1933354070 ISBN 13 : 9781933354071

Editeur : Akashic Books, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In alternating chapters, enigmatic Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with intersecting storylines. Those chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, where, amid a hallucinatory blend of different voices, we meet Elías, a Zapatista detective tasked with locating missing people. Taibo s chapters star his Coca-Cola-and-cigarette-consuming series detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne: a PI specialising in cases stranger than reality. The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city s political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unlikely dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political.

Revue de presse

A chapter or two into this novel, the reader is likely to put it down, in a mix of puzzlement wonder, and start thinking... And somewhere...the novel s authors will applaud... quixotic, playful, self-conscious... For Taibo, reading is the most subversive activity in life. Open any book, he says, and you begin to see the worlds through others eyes. And nothing is more redeeming than that or more dangerous... The novel careens from slapstick to sentimental to thoughtful and back again, often in the same sentence... On its face, the novel is a murder mystery, and at the book s heart, always, is a deep love of Mexico and its people --James Sallis

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Akashic Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1933354070
• ISBN 13: 9781933354071
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible