by Peter Ackroyd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429727197
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«La sombra de Hawksmoor» is the mystery novel by Peter Ackroyd, published by Península in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
The novel alternates between eighteenth-century London, where the architect Nicholas Dyer builds churches while conspiring and dreaming of the Enlightenment utopia, and contemporary London, where detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates corpses found in historic temples. Both eras end up intertwining in a plot with a Gothic atmosphere.
Translation by Fátima Serra; original in English «Hawksmoor» (1985). Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award and the Whitbread Award.
For readers of Gothic, historical and mystery fiction, and for those seeking stories set in London across different eras.
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
