Blood crime / Sebastià Alzamora ; translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Catalan Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 288 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781616956288
- 1616956283
- Crim de sang. English
- Sant Jordi Prize for Catalan Literature
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Alzamora Sebastia | Available | 33111008464659 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hides in plain sight, trading favours with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer. Can she escape in this city of no happy endings?
"First published in Catalan by Raval Edicions, SLU, Proa, 2012" -- Title page verso.
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hides in plain sight, trading favors with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer. Can she escape in this city of no happy endings? Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war, this stunning novel, inspired by the true story of a massacre in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, is a gothic reflection on the nature of monsters, in all their human forms.
Sant Jordi Prize for Catalan Literature