Sebastia Alzamora: Blood Crime
Blood Crime
Buch
- Übersetzung: Maruxa Relano, Martha Tennent
- Soho Press, 09/2017
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781616958367
- Bestellnummer: 5749778
- Umfang: 304 Seiten
- Gewicht: 228 g
- Maße: 190 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 24 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.9.2017
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A multi-genre gothic novel of the horrific early days of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, perfect for fans of Roberto Bolaño and Mario Vargas Llosa."Startling . . . Blood Crime (beautifully translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent) has a sort of concentrated power that's rare in horror novels. It's akin to poetry." -The New York Times Book Review
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hides in plain sight, trading favors with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer. Can she escape in this city of no happy endings?
Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war, this stunning novel, inspired by the true story of a massacre in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, is a gothic reflection on the nature of monsters, in all their human forms.