by Luis Sepúlveda · Ugo Guanda Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788877467690
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«Un nome da torero» is the thriller novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Ugo Guanda Editore in paperback (176 pages, in Italian).
In a Berlin without the Wall, a Chilean ex-guerrilla named Belmonte after a bullfighter is commissioned by an insurance company to recover gold coins that disappeared from the Gestapo during the Second World War. An officer of East Germany's secret services seeks the same treasure; the chase goes from Europe to Tierra del Fuego.
Italian edition translated by Ilide Carmignani, in the «Narratori della Fenice» collection. The original Spanish title is «Nombre de torero».
For readers of crime, mystery and thriller fiction, and for those who enjoy plots with historical background and European settings.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
