by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408019664
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«La soledad del manager» is the crime novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Planeta in hardcover (281 pages, in Spanish).
A man's corpse is found with women's underwear in his pocket, and his widow hires Pepe Carvalho, a private detective in Barcelona, to investigate. What seems like a sexual settling of scores becomes a political case in a Spain transitioning between Francoism and democracy. Carvalho deals with his anxieties by cooking a duck salmis late at night.
Third installment in the Pepe Carvalho series. Commemorative edition «Carvalho 25 años» with the epilogue «La familia de Pepe Carvalho». Novel originally published in 1977.
For readers of crime fiction and for those who follow the series featuring detective Pepe Carvalho.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter.
