by Justo Navarro · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433972262
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In 'The Spy,' Justo Navarro immerses us in an espionage plot set in Italy during World War II. The American poet Ezra Pound, from Radio Roma, participates in the propaganda battle against the Allies, arousing suspicions in the Italian counterintelligence services. Was Pound transmitting encrypted messages to the enemy? Was he a double agent or a criminal figure? The story is told to J. N., translator and friend of mystery novelist Carlo Trenti, who resides in Pisa during the same months as Pound. A novel that explores the ambiguity of reality and the universe of espionage.
Justo Navarro Velilla is a Spanish poet and novelist. He was born in Granada, and is a graduate of Granada University. He has published half a dozen novels including Accidentes íntimos, which won the Premio Herralde de Novela, and La casa del padre (1994), winner of the Premio Andalucía de la Crítica. He won the same prize again with his detective novel Gran Granada (2016). He is also a highly regarded poet, having won the Premio de la Crítica for his collection Un aviador prevé su muerte. As a translator, he has translated English language writers such as T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf and Paul Auster.
