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Las Hermanas Jacobs / The Lock-Up
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ISBN10: 842047536X
ISBN13: 9788420475363
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 9.37
Language: Spanish
ISBN13: 9788420475363
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 9.37
Language: Spanish
«John Banville/Benjamin Black es un maestro y su prosa es un deleite incesante . -- Martin Amis 1945: la guerra ha terminado y algunos alemanes deben huir del paÃs. Tras un viaje agotador, un hombre llega a un antiguo monasterio franciscano que se alza frente a los Dolomitas. Allà hallará refugio y también sellará un pacto. Más de una década después, el doctor Quirke es «un animal herido que se ha mudado a casa de su hija Phoebe tras la trágica muerte de su mujer. Cuando en un garaje de DublÃn aparece el cadáver de la joven estudiante judÃa Rosa Jacobs, todo parece apuntar a un suicidio, pero Quirke y el inspector Strafford --que se enfrentan a su primer caso juntos-- sospechan que se trata de un crimen, al igual que la hermana de la vÃctima, una periodista que se une a la búsqueda de la verdad y zarandea el corazón del patólogo. Mientras las relaciones entre los dos investigadores se vuelven cada vez más tensas, el misterio se agudiza cuando descubren los vÃnculos de Rosa con el hijo de una acaudalada familia alemana que se mudó al condado de Wicklow tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y tiene negocios en Israel. Podrán unir las piezas del rompecabezas oculto? «Soberbio e impactante [...]. Más que un toque de genialidad . - The Times ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and Irish master (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery. In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's own daughter. Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world's most celebrated authors.
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