Cuatro manos
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
FICTION | 1990 | 480 pages
Famous and fictional characters share the geography and revolutionary history of the 20th century, from a Bulgarian agitator to the magician Houdini with his New York psychiatrist, by way of a Spanish anarchist, Pancho Villa, Leon Trotsky, a Mexican drug lord, and Stan Laurel, the Thin One. A whole gallery of portraits comes to life and parades by as two freelance journalists dream of writing about power and journalistic ethics. Cuatro manos unfolds at a breakneck and hilarious pace, where everything happens simultaneously, and in which the reader will enjoy a dark, historical, fictional, and adventurous novel.
RIGHTS: spanish PLANETA | german ROTTEN STRABE | spanish (spain) TXALAPARTA | spanish (nicaragua) VANGUARDIA | italian TROPEA | greek AGRA
“Paco Ignacio Taibo II gives everything his full scope. He exaggerates, he is multi-dimensional, he is guignolic. He sets the galloping paranoia of his imagination against the great screens of the world: Manhattan,Mexico City, Southern California... (He) is one of the best narrative clowns of our time.”
“The publication of this work will force a quality jump, not only for the noir and espionage genre, but for the whole of Hispanic American fiction.”
BY PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II:
Pancho Villa
NONFICITON, 2024
La libertad
NONFICTION, 2022
La historia del gueto de varsovia
NONFICTION, 2022
Todo Belascoarán
FICTION, 2021
El general orejón ese
NONFICTION, 2021
Yaquis
NONFICTION, 2020
Cuentos incompletos
SHORT STORIES, 2020
Cuatro manos
FICTION, 2020
Retornamos como sombras
FICTION, 2020
Temporada de zopilotes
NONFICTION, 2020
La bicicleta de Leonardo
FICTION, 2020
Bolcheviques
NONFICTION, 2019
De paso
FICTION, 2017
68
NONFICTION, 2016
Héroes convocados
FICTION, 2016
El Álamo
NONFICTION, 2013
El ciego, la cabeza y el golpe
SHORT STORIES, 2013
La vida misma
FICTION, 2012
Los libres no reconocen rivales
NONFICTION, 2012
La lejanía del tesoro
FICTION, 2011
El retorno de los tigres de Malasia
FICTION, 2011
Olga Forever
FICTION, 2007
Doña Eustolia blandió el cuchillo cebollero
SHORT STORIES, 2003
Arcángeles
FICTION, 1998
Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che
NONFICTION, 1996