by Barry Unsworth · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440677570
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«Una muerte en escena» is the historical mystery novel by Barry Unsworth, published by Ediciones B in hardback (240 pages, in Spanish).
In fourteenth-century England, a cleric leaves his diocese and joins a travelling theatre company. When they find the corpse of a young man hastily buried, the group stages the crime in a play and uncovers secrets the community preferred to keep hidden.
Originally published as Morality Play in 1995, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Martin Beck Award in 1997. Translated by Juan Gabriel López Guix.
For readers of historical fiction and mystery, with a medieval setting reminiscent of The Name of the Rose.
Barry Unsworth FRSL was an English writer known for his historical fiction. He published 17 novels, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger.
