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Quando una tempesta tropicale si abbatte sul Golfo del Messico, Lucio Doria capisce che è giunta l'ora di raccontare la storia del suo tradimento. Non è nato a Veracruz ma vi è giunto ottant'anni prima, all'alba del nuovo secolo. Sbarcato dal piroscafo San Gottardo insieme a un gruppo di esuli italiani - tipografi, illusionisti, filosofi e sognatori - ha fondato nel Nuovo Mondo una comune libertaria. Qui ha trovato una casa, una famiglia e ha conosciuto l'amore. Ma l'avidità del governatore ha cancellato il sogno con la forza e l'inganno costringendo gli italiani a una fuga disperata nei convulsi anni che precedono la rivoluzione. Poi il secolo ha seguito il suo corso, e a quella messicana sono succedute altre rivoluzioni e altri sogni egualitari. Adesso, mentre i lampi squarciano il cielo dei tropici, Lucio Doria, conosciuto anche come il Diavolo, si rende conto che il finale della sua storia può essere raccontato solo tornando lì dove tutto è iniziato, a Napoli: qui, dopo una vita d'inganni, potrà ricevere il perdono che merita. O forse no. Forse sarà il principio di un nuovo viaggio.

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Mexico Noir

Description: The narrators of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's wonderfully inventive novel, Four Hands, are Greg Simon and Julio Fernandez: investigative journalists uncovering an elaborate plot by an obscure American government agency to vilify the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua. The story they discover and type out together weaves truth with lies, wild humor with tragedy, and reality with fantasy–a stranger-than-fiction tale of imperial excess where delusion makes perfect sense. Joining such historical figures as Harry Houdini, Leon Trotsky, Pancho Villa, and Stan Laurel is a sprawling cast of characters that includes Alex, a spymaster with a knack for the absurd; Rolando, a depraved Mexican drug trafficker; and Stoyan Vasilev, a geriatric Bulgarian counterspy. A “documentary novel” and a passionate satire about the means and ends of politics, Paco Taibo's Four Hands has been compared to the fiction of Marquéz, Dos Passos, Doctorow, and Heller. Praise: “I am his number one fan…. I can always lose myself in one of his novels because of the intelligence and humor.” —Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate “Taibo writes with genuine savvy, a crackling wit and a certain zaniness that is his very own…. A storyteller of real genius.” —Los Angeles Times “Like Bach (or Houdini), the pleasure Taibo offers us consists in watching him set himself a problem of astonishing complexity and then solve it.” —New York Newsday “It’s impossible to review [Taibo II’s] literary work without painting an ideological portrait. He’s probably the writer on the left with the proudest lineage of all those I’ve read.” —Christopher Domínguez Michael, Letras Libres “Taibo's prose is rich in metaphor, and his confident, insightful storytelling makes the individual pieces of his novel intriguing long before the connections among them are apparent. Dail's translation does fine justice to the author's colorful, virtuosic narrative.” —Publishers Weekly About the Author: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, or PIT, was born in Gijón, Spain in 1949, before fleeing Franco’s dictatorship with his family in 1958. He has resided in Mexico City ever since, where he’s built a career as a writer, journalist, historian, and perhaps most crucially, a founder of the neopolicial genre in Latin America. His books have been published in 29 countries and translated into nearly as many languages. In addition to being a prolific writer, he is an active member of the international crime writing community and organizes Semana Negra or “Noir Week” in his native Gijón. He has won the Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prize three times, as well as the Mexican Premio Planeta, and several other awards for international crime fiction. About the Translator: Laura C. Dail graduated from Duke University and received her Master’s degree in Spanish from Middlebury College. She has served on the board of the Association of Authors Representatives (AAR) and currently chairs the AAR Royalties Committee. A literary agent as well as a translator, she is the head of the Laura Dail Literary Agency.

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Le Rendez-vous des héros - Manuel pour la prise du pouvoir

Plus nostalgique et désabusé que jamais, Hector Belascoaràn Shayne se retrouve à Madrid, au pays de ses ancêtres. En effet, l'un de ses amis, conservateur au musée d'anthropologie de Mexico, l'a chargé d'enquêter sur un trafic d'objets précolombiens. Une pièce inestimable en or massif, le plastron de Moctezuma, a été dérobée dans les collections nationales. Le détective borgne erre dans la capitale espagnole et ressasse des idées noires. Pourtant, même déprimé, il reste intraitable. Avec pour seules armes une fourchette et un marteau, il s'attaque à ses ennemis, mais c'est au poker qu'il finira par régler ses comptes. Dans ce court roman, Paco Taibo démontre une fois de plus sa malice et son art incroyable du récit, tout en s'interrogeant, mine de rien, sur la complexité des rapports qui unissent l'Espagne au Mexique.

Adios Madrid

Voici "la" grande biographie latino-américaine d'un héros latino-américain. Le mythe et l'image du Che hantent les imaginaires, symbole de l'utopie pour les uns, héros d'une révolution impossible mais nécessaire pour leurs autres. A partir d'un important matériel en partie inédit, archives cubaines, journaux intimes, témoignages et photos, Paco Ignacio Taibo II nous fait rencontrer Ernesto Guevara au-delà du mythe du Che. Cette fresque historique extraordinairement documentée devient sous la plume de l'écrivain un roman d'aventures unique qui révèle un personnage complexe et surprenant : le guérillero insolent, moqueur et dur, surtout avec lui-même, laisse place à un homme différent de celui qu'on croyait connaître.

Ernesto Guevara, connu aussi comme le Che - Tome 2

Trente ans après sa mort, au-delà des affiches et des T-shirts, le mythe et l'image du Che fascinent et hantent les imaginaires, symbole de l'utopie pour les jeunes mal informés ou héros d'une révolution impossible mais nécessaire pour leurs parents.

A partir d'un important matériel en partie inédit - archives cubaines, journaux intimes, témoignages et photos - P.I. Taibo II construit une biographie complète et détaillée qui révèle un personnage complexe et surprenant. Le guérillero insolent, moqueur et dur, surtout avec lui-même, laisse place à un homme différent de celui qu'on croyait connaître.

P.I. Taibo II nous fait rencontrer Ernesto Guevara au-delà du mythe du Che et écrit " la " grande biographie latino-américaine d'un héro latino-américain. Cette fresque historique extraordinairement documentée devient sous la plume de l'écrivain un roman d'aventures unique.

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