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| Author | : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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When Pepe Carvalho's uncle asks him to find his son, Ra'l, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is ?tango, Maradona, and the disappeared? and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family and soon Carvalho is in Buenos Aires, getting more caught up in Argentina's troubled past than is good for anybody. As he gets nearer to finding Ra'l, he begins to realise the full impact of the traumas caused by a military junta who went so far as to kidnap the children of the political activists they tortured. A few excellent tangos, bottles of Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon and a sexy semiotician are no compensation for the savage brutality Carvalho experiences in his attempt to come to grips with Argentina's recent history.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2012-02-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612190359 |
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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.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2012-02-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612190391 |
Download The Angst-Ridden Executive Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter—back when Carvalho still worked for the CIA. Jauma was a “womanizer,” according to a friend, “of the least pleasant sense,” and the police have decided that the murder is the work of an unhappy pimp. But Carvalho doggedly pursues his own phlegmatic investigation, with time out for his signature book burning (Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reasoning; Sholokov’s And Quiet Flows the Don), cooking (leek soup and a freshly-caught steamed turbot), and running with his girlfriend Charo, whose last name he can’t remember.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2012-06-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612191169 |
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Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it. Pepe Carvalho is set to retire. Content to live out the rest of his days enjoying the best food and wine Catalonia has to offer, his plans are put on hold when an executive from Barcelona's world-famous soccer team pays him a visit. “The center forward will be killed at dusk,” reads the note the executive gives to Carvalho. With that, the detective, former communist, and one-time employee of the CIA, must find out where this note is from. Is the threat real? Is it the work of one person? Or is it one of the real estate moguls tearing Barcelona apart in their battle over the most important properties of Catalonia? Here Montalbán does for the game of soccer what he has done for food. In an exquisite portrait of Spain’s most beloved sport, soccer and politics mix in a gripping mystery about the reckless excesses—and limits—of power.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2012-04-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612191185 |
Download Southern Seas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year. 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, a jaded former communist, 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.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Serpent's Tail |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Carvalho, José (Fictitious character) |
| ISBN | : 9781846686726 |
Download An Olympic Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho - who remembers the good old days when a hammer always came with a sickle - now finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Montalbán's overweight hero cruises the backstreets of the Barcelona dream, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.
| Author | : Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Man of My Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After a visit to Argentina, Spain's most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catalonia. When the son of a rich financier is murdered, Carvalho is called upon to investigate his mysterious death. In his quest for the killer, Carvalho has to infiltrate the world of Satanism and religious sects.The bon vivant detective also faces problems in his personal life, torn as he is between two women - his on-off partner Charo, and her eternal hesitations, and the enigmatic Yes, a lover from his youth. The professional and personal merge and a devastating betrayal leaves Carvalho fighting for his life.As ever, Montalbán astutely reflects on the current political situation in Europe with the added bonus of delicious Catalan recipes. This is Montalbán at the top of his game.
| Author | : Arnold Steinhardt |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2000-06-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780374527006 |
Download Indivisible by Four Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author tells of his own development as a student, "of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music ... [and of how] four individualists master and then overcome the confining demands of ensemble playing."--Jacket.
| Author | : María Susana Azzi |
| Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195127773 |
Download Le Grand Tango Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Combining deft musical analysis and intriguing personal insight, Azzi and Collier vividly capture the life of Piazolla, the Argentinean musician--a visionary who won worldwide acclaim but sparked bitter controversy in his native land. 42 halftones.
| Author | : Manuel Vazquez Montalban |
| Publisher | : Melville House |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2013-07-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1612192092 |
Download Tattoo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Only Pepe Carvalho could use a tattoo saying "Born to Raise Hell in Hell" as evidence that the police are, once again, dead wrong In a Spain still stifled under the rule of Franco, former CIA operative--and former Communist--Pepe Carvalho has become so cynical he seems to care about nothing except food and sex. He's even taken to burning the occasional book in his Barcelona apartment, just so he can have a fire going in the fireplace when he eats some bacalhao. But when he sees the cops bungling a case he's hired to investigate--that of a body pulled out of the sea--he's roused by a sense of injustice. The cops think the murder was connected to local drug dealers and brothels, and they begin raiding bars and harassing Barcelona's women of the night. But Carvalho's gut tells him something else is going on, and the cops are wrong once again. As the cops stir up more and more trouble, and Carvalho gets more and more entwined, he's only got one clue: a tattoo on the dead man's body, one which reads: "Born to Raise Hell in Hell."
