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Lädt ... Tahiti liegt bei Barcelona. (1979)von Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book may be over my head, much of the writing I did not understand. It seemed like endless lines which should have set a tone, or a place, or performed some task, but I never figured out what it was. Maybe it is because the snapshot or timeframe of Spanish history is largely unknown to me, but somehow it seemed important. Overall it was kind of weird. I never figured out what Pepe Carvalho was all about other than another investigator-type, in this case "private detective", with an overriding culinary streak. Is Carvalho the original foodie? Seems like every bit of crime fiction I read nowadays has to have a strong food angle: Tannie Maria (Sally Andrew), Vish Puri (Tarquin Hall), Salvo Montalbano (Andrea Camilleri) etc. Like when did all the fictional crime-solvers become gourmands? It is because of all those baking shows on TV nowadays? Another aspect I didn’t quite get or believe is that every single character was forever quoting from literature, or some art figure. Every person was a literary savant. In the real world no one does that. I do not believe I had ever heard of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán before finding this book so I was trying to keep an open mind. My first impression was to call this an average story. But then I got to thinking that I didn’t care for a single character, and there were scores as the book circled back and forth between the mains. I simply wasn’t engaged in any way with the story or events so it took me a long time to read what is really a short story. When I'd pick up the book to start reading again I had little idea of what was happening so would have to glance back a few pages to try and get back into it. At the end of the day I have to go with less-than-okay for this one. There were a few passages I liked (see below), but by the middle the book not even those could save it. ************* ‘What about his wife? Why is she called Mima?’ ‘From Miriam. It’s quite normal. All my clients are called Popo, Puli, Peni, Chocho, Fifi or somesuch. These days it’s chic to be "tired", and nothing tires you more than having to say someone's full name. Barcelona, 1979. En vísperas de las elecciones municipales, el detective privado Pepe Carvalho debe investigar las causas de un misterioso crimen. Stuart Pedrell, un reconocido empresario, es encontrado muerto en un barrio a las afueras del pueblo; tragedia particularmente inexplicable ya que todos creían que estaba en la Polinesia desde hacía un año. Carvalho investiga entonces lo que hizo durante ese año y comienza a conocer la peculiar personalidad de la víctima, sus preferencias intelectuales y su obsesión por seguir los pasos de Gauguin e ir a los Mares del Sur. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific. A year later he is found stabbed to death at a construction site in Barcelona. Gourmand gumshoe Pepe Carvalho is hired by Pedrell's wife to find out what happened. Carvalho must travel through circles of the old anti-Franco left wing on the trail of the killer. But with little appetite for politics, Carvalho also leads us on a tour through literature, cuisine, and the criminal underbelly of Barcelona in a typically brilliant twist on the genre by a Spanish master"--P. [4] of cover. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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La novela está bien, entretenida. Es interesante ver el contexto histórico de la transición española. Pero los diálogos son poco creíbles. La segunda parte mucho mejor que la primera. ( )