by Jorge Semprún · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432220425
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«La segunda muerte de Ramón Mercader» is the spy novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Seix Barral in paperback (362 pages, in Spanish).
Soviet agent Ramón Mercader leaves Madrid for Amsterdam under the cover of an export business; in reality he seeks to contact his bosses. In Zurich, the police await him, and a web of intrigues woven by Americans, Russians and East Germans makes him both target and bait. The novel combines espionage and political suspense in the Cold War.
The novel, written in French as «La Deuxième mort de Ramón Mercader», appears translated by Carlos Pujol in the Seix Barral Literatura Contemporánea collection, number 45, and won the Prix Femina in 1969.
For readers of spy novels and political thrillers interested in the Cold War atmosphere.
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and the change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991.
