by Paco Ignacio Taibo II · TXALAPARTA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789872349677
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«La vida misma» is the crime novel by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, published by Txalaparta in paperback and in Spanish.
A writer in his fifties becomes chief of the municipal police of Santa Ana, a left-wing town council in northern Mexico besieged by the PRI offensive. Taibo II interweaves the murder of a young woman with the reality of a Mexican society dominated by gunmen and corruption.
It won the Hammett Prize for best Mexican novel in 1988. The work originally appeared in 1987.
It will appeal to readers of crime fiction and stories with a Mexican political and social background.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II, also known as Paco Taibo II or informally as PIT is a Spanish-Mexican writer, novelist and political activist based in Mexico City. He is most widely known as the founder of the neopolicial genre of novel in Latin America and is also a prominent member of the international crime writing community. His Spanish language work has won numerous awards including two Latin American Dashiell Hammett Prizes. In 2018, Taibo was appointed as head of the Fondo de Cultura Económica by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
