
Así murió el poeta Guadalupe
Alianza Literaria, 2009 | Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe
Awards
***Finalist in a Dashiell Hammet Prize***
Press
«A powerful narrative that masterfully combines an acidic frivolity with a distilled and chemically pure horror.» Ernesto Mallo, Página 12
Synopsis
(Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe) A mysterious recording arrives at a newspaper’s editorial office. It is an interview from a mental hospital in which someone—probably the interviewer—has deleted the questions so that the voice file has the tone of a confession. The enigmatic woman’s voice, a bit angry and resentful, tells of her meeting during the last years of Franco with a group of powerful South Americans who landed in a Spain with their own dazzling, worldly air. But behind the glamour of those characters, their poetry, their boleros, their marvelous women, lies death. And torture. Cristina Fallarás presents Thus Died the Poet Guadalupe as a journey with the most abject human beings disguised with greatness: a meeting between the most voluptuous seduction and systematic torture. A novel of intrigue, sarcastic and rugged, with a strong dose of social criticism, which delves into the mysteries of personality, in all its darkness—a disturbing darkness that ends up revealing how the poet Guadalupe has died.
MB Authors Fiction
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Max BESORA
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Jordi ESTEVA
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- Albert GASSULL
- David B. GIL
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Mercedes HALFON
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Marta REBÓN
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Rubén SERRANO
- Aránzazu SERRANO LORENZO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI