The name of a bullfighter /
Juan Belmonte, named after a famous bullfighter, is a former South American Marxist guerrilla who now works as a bouncer at a seedy Hamburg strip joint. One day he is approached by an old man in a wheelchair who makes him an offer he cannot refuse. During World War II, he is told, two German police...
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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Harcourt Brace,
c1996
New York : ©1996 New York, NY : [1996], ©1996 New York ; San Diego : [1996] San Diego : 1997 |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed |
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| Summary: | Juan Belmonte, named after a famous bullfighter, is a former South American Marxist guerrilla who now works as a bouncer at a seedy Hamburg strip joint. One day he is approached by an old man in a wheelchair who makes him an offer he cannot refuse. During World War II, he is told, two German police officers stole precious medieval coins from the German treasury and hid them somewhere in Chile. Now, fifty years later, they are trying to cash in on their fabulous loot Juan Belmonte, named after a famous bullfighter, is a former South American Marxist guerrilla who now works as a bouncer at a seedy Hamburg strip joint. One day he is approached by an old man in a wheelchair who makes him an offer he cannot refuse. During World War II, he is told, two German police officers stole precious medieval coins from the German treasury and hid them somewhere in Chile. Now, fifty years later, they are trying to cash in on their fabulous loot. Belmonte must recover the gold coins for the old man in return for medical treatment for his beloved, who was brutally tortured by Chilean soldiers. At the same time, Frank Galinsky, ex-operative for Stasi, the defunct East German intelligence agency, is out of work, broke, without prospects, and abandoned by his wife. He is approached by his former superior, the Major, who tells him of the stolen coins and offers him a chance to relive old glories by retrieving the gold coins. The chase is on. Full of suspense and surprising revelations, The Name of a Bullfighter is an intricately crafted, engrossing novel Two men compete to recover a booty of gold coins stolen during World War II and hidden in Chile. The two, commissioned by different people, are a Sandinista guerrilla working as a bouncer in Hamburg, and an agent of the disbanded East German intelligence service. By a Chilean writer living in Germany, author of The old man who read love stories "Readers may be unfamiliar with Ariel Dorfman and Paco Ignacio Taibo III (with whom Sepúlveda is compared in the brief blurb on the book's cover), but no doubt they easily will become engrossed in the world of The name of the bullfighter, thanks to Suzanne Ruta's ability to translate a novel's genre as well as its words"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 At the same time, Frank Galinsky, ex-operative for Stasi, the defunct East German intelligence agency, is out of work, broke, without prospects, and abandoned by his wife. He is approached by his former superior, the Major, who tells him of the stolen coins and offers him a chance to relive old glories by retrieving the gold coins. The chase is on. Full of suspense and surprising revelations, The Name of a Bullfighter is an intricately crafted, engrossing novel Belmonte must recover the gold coins for the old man in return for medical treatment for his beloved, who was brutally tortured by Chilean soldiers |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Barcelona : Tusquets Editores, 1994 Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1996 Spanish ed. originally published: Barcelona : Tusquets Editores, 1994 This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC "A Harvest book." |
| Physical Description: | 211 p. ; 22 cm 211 pages ; 21 cm 211 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0151001936 0156005484 9780151001934 9780156005487 |