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The Shy Assassin

The Shy Assassin

Usón, Clara
Meyer, Lily

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 0826508316
ISBN13: 9780826508317
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Nov 15 2025
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

In September 1977, Sandra Mozarowsky--a seventeen-year-old Spanish erotic film actress and purported lover of King Juan Carlos I--died after leaping from her fourth-floor balcony in Madrid. The mysterious circumstances surrounding her death drew immediate public interest and generated conspiracy theories. Was her death a suicide? A covert murder? A cry for help? In The Shy Assassin, award-winning Spanish novelist Clara Usón uses the tragic death of Mozarowsky to provide a powerful philosophical meditation on suicide and the turbulent years of the Spanish transition to democracy. Playfully drawing upon the work of philosophers like Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jean-Paul Sartre, Usón weaves together her own experiences as a rebellious teenager with those of Mozarowsky with great power and emotion. Winner of the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Usón's novel is a funny, provocative, and deeply entertaining look at Spanish culture during a time of historic political and cultural change.

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