by Benjamin Black · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420419480
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«Las sombras de Quirke» is the crime novel by Benjamin Black, published by Alfaguara in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
Quirke, a pathologist with hallucinations, returns to the Dublin morgue. A charred body in a car looks like suicide, but the disappearance of the only witness leads him to investigate Dublin's elites: secret societies, corrupt politicians, and the psychoanalyst Evelyn Blake. The investigation ends up pointing at his own family.
It is the seventh instalment of the Quirke series, by Benjamin Black, pseudonym of John Banville. It won the Best Novel Prize at Valencia Negra 2017. Original title: Even the Dead.
For readers of crime fiction set in mid-century Dublin, with a tormented protagonist and suspense.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
