by Tariq Ali · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420651811
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«Miedo a los espejos» is the historical and political novel by Tariq Ali, published by Alianza in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
After German reunification, Vlady, a GDR dissident, falls into crisis: his wife leaves him and he is expelled from the university. As he tries to explain to his son Karl his commitment to communism, he recalls the Polish spy Ludwik, Kim Philby and the secrets of his mother, Gertrude. A suspense novel about twentieth-century Central Europe.
Spanish edition of 2009, translated by María Corniero Fernández, in the Alianza Literaria collection. Original work: «Fear of Mirrors» (1998).
For readers of historical and political fiction interested in twentieth-century Central Europe and the personal aftermath of the fall of communism.
Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-British political activist, writer, journalist, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He reads Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
