Brigitte Coopmans Knihy

Een reus raakt door een relatie met een knappe vrouw verzeild in een dorp in Patagonië met merkwaardige bewoners.

Eliza Sommerová, mladá Chilanka, se bláznivě zamiluje do Jaquína Andiety. Ten odjíždí na sever jako tisíce dalších nadšenců, kteří doufali ve snadné zbohatnutí v době zlaté horečky do Kalifornie. Eliza je těhotná a rozhodne se svého milence najít. Přestrojena v mužských šatech, ukrytá v podpalubí plachetnice podnikne riskantní cestu, během které přichází o dítě a málem i o život. Zachraňuje ji čínský lékař, který se pro ni stane oporou a velkou životní jistotou.

THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning, which can be brought to light by interpreting certain repeated words and images. As the main plot and also the translation of the manuscript advances, there are certain sinister coincidences, and it seems that the text is addressing him personally and in an increasingly menacing manner... THE ATHENIAN MURDERS constitutes a highly compelling, entertaining and intelligent game about the different ways we can see and read reality, about our refusal to take things 'as they are' and our need to interpret hidden meanings into everyday life.

'Juan Gabriel Vasquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature. His first novel, The Informers, a very powerful story about the shadowy years immediately following World War II, is testimony to the richness of his imagination as well as the subtlety and elegance of his prose' Mario Vargas Llosa

Bloemlezing van verhalen over Cuba.