by Manuel Vazquez Montalban · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408020820
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«Los mares del Sur» is the crime novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published by Planeta in paperback (239 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Pepe Carvalho investigates the death of a Barcelona businessman found on the outskirts when everyone believed he was in Polynesia. Reconstructing his last year, he uncovers his contradictions, his fascination with Gauguin, and the search for an unattainable fulfillment, in a portrait of Barcelona during the transition.
Novel in the Carvalho series, originally published in 1979 and winner of the Planeta Prize. This edition, from the Carvalho 25 años collection, includes the epilogue «La Barcelona de Pepe Carvalho».
For readers of crime fiction and followers of the Pepe Carvalho series, interested in the social critique of Spain during the transition.
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.
