by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408031765
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«Los mares del Sur» is the detective novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Planeta in hardback (239 pages, in Spanish).
Barcelona, 1979. Pepe Carvalho investigates the murder of Stuart Pedrell, a businessman everyone believed to be in Polynesia. He uncovers his obsession with Gauguin and the South Seas, a symbol of unattainable fulfilment, while portraying from high society to the suburbs and the conflicts of the Spain of that time.
«Los mares del Sur» is the fourth novel in the Pepe Carvalho series. The work won the Premio Planeta in 1979 and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1981.
For readers of crime fiction and followers of the Carvalho series; also for those seeking a social portrait of the Spain of 1979.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter.
