Determined to find always something new, dear Amir, in this anthology, along with renowned authors in the genre, you offer other edges, other names, unknown to many people. It is an excellent choice.
Luis Rafael, Cuban writer
… if in Latin America, among others, already had authors with a well-earned respect in the genre such as Leonardo Padura, Lorenzo Lunar Cardedo and who writes this prologue, in Cuba; Juan Hernández Luna, Eduardo Antonio Parra and Cristina Rivera Garza, in Mexico; Santiago Gamboa, Jorge Franco Ramos and Mario Mendoza in Colombia; and Ernesto Mallo, Guillermo Orsi and Raul Argemí in Argentina, referring only three authors from countries with more literary development in this genre, in Spain arise writers with different and renovators styles as Juan Ramón Biedma, Elia Barceló, José Carlos Somoza Cristina Fallarás, Antonio Lozano, Ricardo Bosque, Ignacio del Valle, Julian Ibañez, or David Torres, whom I mention here because they are the most I’ve read in recent years, although to write their names here I can make the mistake of forgetting others important writers but whose work I know less or only partially, as I repeat, the avalanche of good crime novels is now impressive in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries.
If Marx said that the history of XVIII Century in France could know better reading Balzac, today can be said it is possible to know better the true story of the modern world (remember here that the transnational companies of information that dominate the planet offers another vision) reading Manuel Vázquez Montalvan, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Lawrence Block, Andrea Camilleri, Leonardo Padura, and other writers who from many countries establish the strength of this modality within the genre. The largest number of crime novels written today in the world, really are deep incisions and reflexions about the society in which the author lives. Are true sociological studies, and therefore every day they are used as research material for sociologists, historians and researchers in the social sciences and the Modern Thought.
Editorial Verbum, Spain, 2013
196 pages
ISBN: 978-84-7962-825-3
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