by José Carlos Somoza · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497939614
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«Clara y la penumbra» is the thriller novel by Spanish writer José Carlos Somoza, published by Debolsillo in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
In a world where hyperdramatism turns people into living canvases, exhibited and collected as works of art, the murder of a model from the Van Tysch Foundation sets off a secret investigation. Two agents discover that the line between the work and the person has blurred, and that the truth could unleash panic.
The novel won the Fernando Lara Novel Prize in 2001 and the Hammett Prize in 2002; this Debolsillo edition was published in 2006.
A work for readers of crime fiction interested in the debate on the value of art and human life.
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.
