Antonio Garrido

"After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Câi Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself--or was murdered. His prowess earns him notoriety, and Câi receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Câi's gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth--especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself."--Publisher's website.

The Corpse Reader

Jack Beilis once lived the American dream: custom suits, new cars, and the best clubs. But by 1931, he has sunk so low he cannot feed himself or his ailing father. Now he barely has time to wipe the blood from his hands before he finds himself on a ship from New York to Moscow, running from a crime he never intended. Desperate for an escape route, Jack wants to believe stories of a worker's paradise in the Soviet Union. Maybe the distance between Ellis Island and Red Square will let him leave poverty--and his pursuers--far behind. Jack accepts an opportunity at the Stalingrad Ford Factory and embarks on a new life. What he finds, though, is a surveillance society, empty store shelves, and a dangerous network of black markets. There seems to be no way out, until Jack meets Dr. Natasha Lobanova. Could this Russian beauty be his deliverance? When Natasha's own dark history surfaces, Jack's fate is threatened. With betrayals and secrets everywhere, Jack struggles to trust anyone or anything...even his own heart.

The Last Paradise

The/Corpse Reader

El lector de cadáveres

O Leitor de Cadáveres

A escriba

En 1929, el joven y avezado Jack Beilis conducía su propio automóvil, vestía trajes a medida y frecuentaba los mejores clubs de Detroit. Pero la brutal crisis que aquel año azotó América lo arrojó, junto a millones de compatriotas, al hambre y la desesperación. Desahuciado y perseguido por un oscuro crimen, embarcará junto a su amigo Andrew hacia la legendaria Unión Soviética, el idílico imperio en el que cualquier hombre tenía derecho a trabajar y ser feliz, sin sospechar los extraordinarios avatares que les tenía reservados el destino. Inspirada en hechos reales, con El último paraíso Antonio Garrido funde magistralmente thriller, amor y novela histórica en la dramática epopeya de un superviviente en un mundo dividido. Un formidable fresco de una época convulsa que dio un nuevo rumbo a la historia.

Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2015

El último paraíso

Cititorul de cadavre

Simon Bruni

As tragedy strikes, Theresa's dream to pursue the art of parchment-making is shattered as she flees her home, living as a fugitive, while trying to unravel the secret within a parchment written by her father and commissioned by Charlemagne.

The Scribe

Enrique Baena

Congreso de Literatura Española Contemporánea 3. ; Málaga ; 1989

actas del III Congreso de Literatura Española Contemporánea, Universidad de Málaga, 14, 15, 16 y 17 de noviembre de 1989

El teatro de Buero Vallejo, texto y espectáculo

Congreso de Literatura Española Contemporánea

el escritor, la obra y el lector : actas del V Congreso de Literatura Española Contemporánea, Universidad de Málaga, 12, 13, 14 y 15 de noviembre de 1991

Miguel Delibes

Antonio Garrido

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