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Description
On a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco (“Blue Eyes”) and his gorgeous girl, Tere. Entranced, he crosses the border into their dangerous world, becoming their partner in crimes that quickly escalate.
Twenty-five years later, Tere materializes in Cañas's office, needing help. Cañas has settled back into middle-class life, becoming a successful defense lawyer. Zarco has matured into a convict of some infamy. Yet somehow, with new stakes, this three-way affair will begin again.
With his usual brio, Javier Cercas surveys the borders between right and wrong, respectability and criminality, and to what extent we can pass between them-or determine on which side we ultimately fall. This brilliantly plotted tale firmly establishes him as one of the most rewarding novelists writing today.
Product details
Published | Aug 12 2014 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 384 |
ISBN | 9781620403266 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury USA |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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A haunting and provocative book about history, memory, and the elusive nature of heroism... funny, moving, and surprising.
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Conjuring up lost people and places in a style at once personal, idiosyncratic, and slyly circuitous...fostering a seductive and even moving sense of immediacy... Cercas demonstrates...that history demands emotional engagement.
New York Times on The Speed of Light