by Thomas Hettche · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102213
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«El caso Arbogast» is the contemporary fiction novel by Thomas Hettche, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
In 1953, Hans Arbogast, a billiard table salesman, picks up Marie Gurth on the road; the attraction is immediate, but she dies and he is sentenced to life imprisonment for homicide for sexual reasons without evidence. Fourteen years later, the reopening of the case allows a portrait of postwar Germany and its justice.
Work translated from German (original title: Der Fall Arbogast) by Carlos Fortea, part of the Andanzas collection.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary fiction with an interest in legal proceedings and postwar Germany.
Thomas Hettche is a German author.
