by José Carlos Somoza · Algaida Editores S A · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476478998
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«La ventana pintada» is the mystery and suspense novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Algaida in hardcover (253 pages, in Spanish).
Javier Verdaguer, a middle-aged man who takes refuge in cinema, sees the boundaries between reality and fiction blur when a series of coincidences leads him to the Filmoteca Soledad. There he becomes involved in a mystery with no rational explanation, with characters such as an old man who recalls Borges and a young man obsessed with Charlot.
Winner of the Café Gijón Novel Prize, published in 1999 in the Algaida Literaria collection.
Readers of suspense novels with an interest in plots about cinema and the perception of reality.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
