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Le Poulpe #242
Purée d'avocat sauce chili
Laura Beltel, jolie chilienne, a fui son pays natal et les séquelles répressives de la dictature. Elle cherche à Paris les moyens de passer inaperçue et choisit le salon de Chéryl pour se faire teindre en blonde. On la retrouve égorgée sur son fauteuil, et les motivations du Poulpe pour découvrir l'assassin sont décuplées par la rage de voir sa Chéryl compromise. D'autant plus que le faisceau crapuleux mis à jour est plutôt du genre décoiffant: hiérarques des dictatures latino-américaines, enlèvement d'enfants, avocats verreux, escroqueries à l'assurance-vie. Sombre tableau, à peine éclairé par les silhouettes fugitives de créatures dont la beauté sent le souffre...
178 pages, Paperback
First published May 13, 2002
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About the author
Francisco González Ledesma
56 books16 followersFrancisco González Ledesma has been a lawyer, journalist and author.
His first award came in 1948 when he won the "Premio Internacional de Novela" (or International Novel Prize") for his novel "Sombras viejas", with jurors such as Somerset Maugham and Walter Starkie.
The novel suffered the censorship of Franco's regime and the promising future of his author seemed frustrated.
Costrained by the dictatorship, Ledesma started using the pen-name of Silver Kane to write popular novels for the Spanish publisher Editorial Bruguera.
Disappointed by the law practice, he studied journalism and started a new career in the editorial office of the newspaper “El correo catalan” and, later, for “La Vanguardia” (TN: one of the most important newspaper of Catalunya, the Barcelona’s region), becoming chief editor.
In 1966 Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma was one of the founders of the “Grupo democratico de prensa” (or “Democratic press group”), a clandestine press association active under the dictatorship of Franco with the purpose of defending the freedom of the press.
In 1977, after the fall of the regime and while democracy was consolidating in Spain, Ledesma published “Los Napoleones” and, in 1983, “”El expediente Barcelona”, that reached the final selection of the Blasco Ibanez Prize. This is the first novel starring Ledesma’s symbolic character, Inspector Méndez.
In 1984 he won the Planeta Prize for “Cronica sentimental en rojo” and his definitive recognition as a novelist. (translation of the original biography from the official site of the author; translated courtesy of www.gonzalez-ledesma.com)
His first award came in 1948 when he won the "Premio Internacional de Novela" (or International Novel Prize") for his novel "Sombras viejas", with jurors such as Somerset Maugham and Walter Starkie.
The novel suffered the censorship of Franco's regime and the promising future of his author seemed frustrated.
Costrained by the dictatorship, Ledesma started using the pen-name of Silver Kane to write popular novels for the Spanish publisher Editorial Bruguera.
Disappointed by the law practice, he studied journalism and started a new career in the editorial office of the newspaper “El correo catalan” and, later, for “La Vanguardia” (TN: one of the most important newspaper of Catalunya, the Barcelona’s region), becoming chief editor.
In 1966 Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma was one of the founders of the “Grupo democratico de prensa” (or “Democratic press group”), a clandestine press association active under the dictatorship of Franco with the purpose of defending the freedom of the press.
In 1977, after the fall of the regime and while democracy was consolidating in Spain, Ledesma published “Los Napoleones” and, in 1983, “”El expediente Barcelona”, that reached the final selection of the Blasco Ibanez Prize. This is the first novel starring Ledesma’s symbolic character, Inspector Méndez.
In 1984 he won the Planeta Prize for “Cronica sentimental en rojo” and his definitive recognition as a novelist. (translation of the original biography from the official site of the author; translated courtesy of www.gonzalez-ledesma.com)
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