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by Benjamin Black (Author)
«John Banville/Benjamin Black es un maestro y su prosa es un deleite incesante . -- Martin Amis
1945: la guerra ha terminado y algunos alemanes deben huir del país. Tras un viaje agotador, un hombre llega a un antiguo monasterio franciscano que se alza frente a los Dolomitas. Allí hallará refugio y también sellará un pacto. Más de una década después, el doctor Quirke es «un animal herido que se ha mudado a casa de su hija Phoebe tras la trágica muerte de su mujer. Cuando en un garaje de Dublín aparece el cadáver de la joven estudiante judía Rosa Jacobs, todo parece apuntar a un suicidio, pero Quirke y el inspector Strafford --que se enfrentan a su primer caso juntos-- sospechan que se trata de un crimen, al igual que la hermana de la víctima, una periodista que se une a la búsqueda de la verdad y zarandea el corazón del patólogo. Mientras las relaciones entre los dos investigadores se vuelven cada vez más tensas, el misterio se agudiza cuando descubren los vínculos de Rosa con el hijo de una acaudalada familia alemana que se mudó al condado de Wicklow tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y tiene negocios en Israel. Podrán unir las piezas del rompecabezas oculto? «Soberbio e impactante [...]. Más que un toque de genialidad . - The Times ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery. In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's own daughter. Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world's most celebrated authors.
Author Biography
Benjamin Black es el seudónimo de John Banville (Wexford, Irlanda, 1945). Con El libro de las pruebas (Alfaguara, 2014), que compone junto a Fantasmas y Atenea la Trilogía de Freddie Montgomery (Alfaguara, 2020), fue finalista del Premio Man Booker, que ya había obtenido en 2005 con El mar (Alfaguara, 2019), consagrada también por el Irish Book Award como mejor novela del año. Entre su obra publicada en Alfaguara destacan Regreso a Birchwood (2017), El intocable (2015), La señora Osmond (2018), la Trilogía Cleave --ciclo de novelas que incluye Eclipse (2014), Imposturas (2015) y Antigua luz (2012, uno de los mejores libros del año según la crítica española)--, La guitarra azul (2016), Tetralogía científica (2022) --que reúne las novelas Copérnico (ganadora del James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Kepler (merecedora del Premio de Ficción de The Guardian), La carta de Newton y Mefisto--, Las singularidades (2023) y La alquimia del tiempo. Un memoir dublinés, de próxima publicación. Bajo el seudónimo de Benjamin Black, que continúa utilizando exclusivamente en sus ediciones en español, ha publicado en Alfaguara Negra El Lémur (2009), La rubiade ojos negros (2014), Los lobos de Praga (2019) y la serie protagonizada por el doctor Quirke --El secreto de Christine (2007), El otro nombre de Laura (2008), En busca de April (2011), Muerte en verano (2012), Venganza (2013), Órdenes sagradas (2015), Las sombras de Quirke (2017) y Quirke en San Sebastián (2021)--. Las hermanas Jacobs (2023) es el primer caso investigado conjuntamente por Quirke y el inspector Strafford. En 2011 recibió el Premio Franz Kafka, a menudo considerado como la antesala del Premio Nobel, y en 2013 fue galardonado con el Premio Austriaco de Literatura Europea y, en España, con el Premio Leteo y el Premio Liber. En 2014 le fue otorgado el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras por «su inteligente, honda y original creación novelesca».
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