The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo Ii

The Uncomfortable Dead by Paco Ignacio Taibo Ii

In alternating chapters, enigmatic Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with intersecting storylines. Those chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, where, amid a hallucinatory blend of different voices, we meet El?as, a Zapatista detective tasked with locating missing people. Taibo?s chapters star his Coca-Cola-and-cigarette-consuming series detective H?ctor Belascoar?n Shayne: a PI specialising in cases stranger than reality. The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city?s political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unlikely dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political.

?It doesn?t get much more delicious than this: the mythic, surreal Subcomandante Marcos and the wonderfully ironic Paco Taibo playing duet on a most unexpected story.. tender, funny, sly, political, smart, and just plain fun? Achy Obejas, author of Days of Awe ?This isn?t your ordinary left-wing noir satire co-written by Mexico?s most famous crime novelist and the world?s best-known revolutionary leader ? it?s a singular event in world literature? Neal Pollack, author of Never Mind the Pollacks ?Marcos is one of the best writers to come out of Latin America in the last decade... he ranks with Eduardo Galeano or Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez for sheer word power? Ecologist (on Our Word is Our Weapon)

Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in Spain, but has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous books, including a mystery series starring Mexican Private Investigator Hector Belascoaran Shayne. His writing has won many awards, including two Dashiell Hammett prizes.

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ISBN 13	9781852429072
ISBN 10	1852429070
Title	The Uncomfortable Dead
Author	Paco Ignacio Taibo Ii
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2007-01-11
Number of pages	288
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