Retornamos como sombras
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
FICTION | 2001 | 464 pages
1941. As Mexico teeters on the brink of war against Germany, Hitler injects himself with Mexican caffeine and becomes addicted to peyote to withstand the pressure on the Eastern Front. Deep in the Chiapas jungle, a group of Germans in brownshirts march around an old gramophone, harassed by a tenacious Chinese man determined to eliminate them. A poet working as a secret agent discovers that a Mexican minister has a mistress who works for the Abwehr IV. Nazi submarines probe the Mexican coast, searching for an opening to strike a decisive blow against the American giant. Hemingway falls asleep in a Havana swimming pool and inexplicably reappears in Mexico City...
Retornamos como sombras is a fantastical novel where, just like in real life, everything happens simultaneously and is linked by subtle threads that the reader must unravel.
RIGHTS: spanish PLANETA | french RIVAGES | italian IL SAGGIATORE | spanish (spain) TXALAPARTA | japanese HAYAWAKA PUBLISHING
“Retornamos como sombras is another brilliant work from Paco Taibo II, the man who brought “magic realism” to the mystery form. Taibo is one of the world’s necessary authors, even more indispensable in this crazy new millennium than he was in the crazy old one.”
BY PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II:
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