by Ricardo Piglia · Wagenbach Klaus GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783803126351
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«Brennender Zaster» is the crime novel by Ricardo Piglia, published by Wagenbach Klaus GmbH in 2010 in paperback (186 pages, in German).
Four criminals with contacts in the police and politics rob a money transport in Buenos Aires and flee to Montevideo. Barricaded in an apartment, they withstand a sixteen-hour siege broadcast live. Piglia draws on a real case and turns it into a story of mounting tension.
The original novel is «Plata quemada» (1997); this German edition belongs to the Wagenbachs andere Taschenbücher collection (no. 635). The film adaptation received a Goya Award.
For readers of crime fiction and Argentine literature who want to read this work in its German translation.
Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
