by José Carlos Somoza · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499085661
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«La ventana pintada» is the mystery and suspense novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Debolsillo in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Javier Verdaguer, with a sick son and an unfaithful wife, takes refuge in the Soledad Film Library. There he meets an old man resembling Borges, a young man obsessed with Charlot, and a sect of cinephiles seeking to «cross the screen». Upon joining, Javier undergoes a session of The Silence of the Lambs that blurs the line between reality and fiction.
The novel was originally published in 1999 and won the Café Gijón Prize 1998. This paperback edition belongs to the Best Seller collection from Debolsillo.
For readers of suspense and contemporary fiction interested in cinematic references and the play between reality and fiction.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
