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Ernesto Mallo

Teoksen Needle in a Haystack tekijä

14+ teosta 232 jäsentä 30 arvostelua

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Tekijän teokset

Needle in a Haystack (2006) 109 kappaletta
Sweet Money (2007) 39 kappaletta
Buenos Aires Noir (2014) — Toimittaja — 38 kappaletta
Los hombres te han hecho mal (2012) 12 kappaletta
El relicario (2010) 8 kappaletta
El hilo de sangre (2017) 4 kappaletta
La Ciudad de la Furia (2021) 4 kappaletta
Madrid negro (2016) 2 kappaletta
El comisario Lascano (2015) 1 kappale
Me verás caer 1 kappale

Associated Works

The Orwell Brigade (2012) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1948-08-16
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
Argentina
Syntymäpaikka
La Plata, Argentina

Jäseniä

Kirja-arvosteluja

La gloria del Renacimineto, magia, vida cotidiana de aborígenes, esclavos y conquistadores; penurias del mar, amor, traición, guerra, religión, intriga política, codicia, vida y muerte, sexo y guerra, pobreza y riqueza, son los materiales con los que está construida esta ambiciosa novela.
 
Merkitty asiattomaksi
Natt90 | Jan 24, 2023 |
Lo que no lograron asesinos y sicarios lo consiguen oscuros burócratas: quitar a Lascano de en medio mediante un retiro forzado de la policía. Pero la tranquilidad no es para El Perro: una millonaria lo contrata para encontrar a su nieta perdida. Las pistas lo conducen al submundo de la trata de mujeres para la prostitución. Este ámbito desolado, donde convergen los políticos más corruptos y los más despiadados criminales, pondrá a prueba la sagacidad y el ingenio del personaje que hace de cada caso una cuestión de honor.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Natt90 | Jan 10, 2023 |
Recuperado de sus heridas, Lascano decide ponerse en acción y salir en busca del peligroso general Giribaldi con el fin de recuperar la pista de Eva. Asesinos, ladrones, policías y militares se dan prisa en redefinir sus roles en esta etapa de la transición argentina que pasa de la dictadura a la democracia.
 
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Natt90 | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 10, 2023 |
The cover shows President Menem riding a plane marked "Republica Argentina" (rather than Aerolíneas Argentinas) that is on fire and about to crash into the middle of Buenos Aires. Menem's head is tacked onto somebody else's body. I quite like the cover. That Argentina is going to the dogs, the politicians are wrecking the country is a given. You don't have to talk to an Argentinian more than 0.3 of a second before they tell you that. You can join in too, and it's refreshing that one nationality is not overly sensitive to what foreigners say about them.

To the novel: Mallo is a good writer, but there are too many characters here. I'm looking for a Latin American author who can keep themselves to a tight, straight forward narrative. Magical realism, a narrator writing a novel about the story then gets pulled into the story, no full stops (Fernanda Melchor), and archaic vocab are all things which can trip me up when I read in Spanish. I also favour a straight forward story in general. The French seem to be able to do it. Camus, Sartre, Duras, Houellebecq, Voltaire for God's sake - profound yet easy to follow. I was relieved once to read a Vargas Llosa book in English and still get lost; I like a lot of his books but think he would have been better off without magical realism.

In Me Verás Caer characters enter as protagonists and then are left alone until way later in the book, some never come back. The portrait of Carlos (Menem), the president who just wants to party, is amusing. The baddies are a bit too evil to be interesting, and the use of a Islamic terrorist to kill the hero by chance was lazy - although I get the author was referencing one of the big events of the 90s, the bombing of AMIA, the Israeli association in Argentina.

At times I was anxious to know what would happen next. However, this novel is a bit like the story of Argentina: an impressive amount of talent, skill and resources leading nowhere. I have a feeling some of Mallo's other novels are good though. The title of the book comes from Soda Stereo's song Ciudad de la Furia, the most famous rock track about Buenos Aires. Along with Gustavo Cerati of Soda Stereo, Emile Cioran, one of my favourite philosophers, is quoted in the epigraph.
… (lisätietoja)
 
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FEBeyer | Oct 25, 2021 |

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Teokset
14
Also by
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Jäseniä
232
Suosituimmuussija
#97,292
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.6
Kirja-arvosteluja
30
ISBN:t
39
Kielet
3

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