by Luis Sepúlveda · Métailié · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864241836
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«Un nom de torero» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Métailié in paperback (196 pages, in French).
Juan Belmonte, a former guerrilla exiled in Hamburg, is forced by the Lloyd Hanseatic to search in Patagonia for gold coins stolen by the Nazis, so as not to lose Verónica. In this race against former Stasi agents, the novel portrays the memory and humanity of silent Chile.
The novel was originally published in 1994 as «Nombre de torero»; the French edition is translated by François Maspero and belongs to the Bibliothèque hispano-américaine collection from Métailié.
It is suitable for readers of crime fiction and Latin American literature seeking an intrigue with historical background and the memory of exile.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
