The Name of a Bullfighter - Softcover

Sepulveda, Luis; Ruta, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156005484 ISBN 13: 9780156005487

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1997

Synopsis

This “engrossing, thoughtful noir novel” (Publishers Weekly) pits a former South american Marxist guerrilla against an ex-Stasi agent in a race to uncover the truth about a cache of medieval coins stolen during World War II. Translated by Suzanne Ruta.

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Review:

The Chilean expatriate novelist Luis Sepulveda, who scored a major hit in the Spanish-speaking world with his 1992 book The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, has concocted an adventure tale about a quest for missing Nazi gold. The main characters include a Chilean revolutionary named after a famous matador, a pair of former SS agents, and a Swiss insurance investigator; they meet up in the desolate reaches of Tierra del Fuego in their search for the Wandering Crescent Collection, a set of 63 priceless gold coins that disappeared from Nazi Germany in 1943. Sepulveda blends the tense adventure of a Frederic Forsyth novel with a Borgesian sensibility--and manages to pull it off.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0156005484
• ISBN 13: 9780156005487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228