by José Carlos Somoza · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408041269
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«Clara y la penumbra» is the intrigue novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Planeta in hardcover (540 pages, in Spanish).
In contemporary art, hyperdramatic painting, which uses people as canvases, triumphs. The murder of a young model in Vienna alerts the police and a foundation that pressures to conceal it. In Madrid, Clara Reyes, also a model, receives a risky proposal and enters a spiral of fear and fascination about the value of art and life.
«Clara y la penumbra» won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize 2001 and the International Hammett Prize 2002, and belongs to the Spanish and Ibero-American Authors collection.
Aimed at readers of thriller and intrigue with an interest in art and its ethical dilemmas.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
