Sombra de la sombra
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
FICTION | 2020 | 464 pages
Sombra de la sombra follows four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City in 1922. They are a motley group—a gun-toting poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporter who churns out pages of copy “like links of sausage in a chorizo factory.”
Left to their own devices, the group would have waited out Carranza’s presidency in their own quietly besotted fashion, ignoring the betrayal of the Mexican Revolution. But they witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers, and American industrialists.
Critics have hailed Sombra de la sombra as the best of Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s historical novels. Issues of oil, American imperialism, extortion, and government corruption give the novel a distinctly contemporary ring.
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“Once again, Paco Ignacio Taibo II has rescued the genre novel from monochrome banality and made it brand new in lush, wild Technicolor. Shadow of the Shadow is a wonderful achievement at every level and a great read.”
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