by José Cardoso Pires · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634388
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«Balada de la playa de los perros» is the crime novel by José Cardoso Pires, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
After the discovery of a corpse on a beach, brigade chief Elías Santana takes on an investigation that leads him to the darkest layers of the Salazar regime. Inspired by a real event, the novel combines the crime plot with a fragmented and elusive reality, a hallmark of Cardoso Pires's narrative universe.
Work published in 1982; it received the Portuguese Grand Prize for Fiction. Translation by Basilio Losada Castro. Collection El libro de bolsillo - Literatura, no. 5522.
For adult readers of crime fiction and contemporary narrative, and for those interested in the history of Portugal during the Salazar era.
