by Michael Frayn · Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788478885657
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«La trampa maestra» is the mystery and social satire novel by Michael Frayn, published by Salamandra in hardcover (382 pages, in Spanish).
Martin Clay, a young philosopher and art enthusiast, discovers in a neighboring mansion a painting he believes to be by Peter Bruegel the Elder. To certify its authenticity without the owner knowing and buy it cheaply, he devises a scheme that risks his money, his marriage, and his reputation. A satire on ambition, authenticity, and the value of art.
Third edition in the Salamandra Narrativa collection. Translation by María Luz García de la Hoz of the English original «Headlong». Finalist for the Booker Prize in 1999.
For readers of mystery novels with an artistic background and puzzles of pictorial heritage.
Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen, and Democracy.
