The love parade /
"Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to solve the mystery of a murder committed in the building where he lived as a ten-year-old in Mexico City's Colonia Roma in autumn 1942. Mexico had just declared war on Germany, and its capital became a colorful ca...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. |
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Dallas, Texas :
Deep Vellum Publishing,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to solve the mystery of a murder committed in the building where he lived as a ten-year-old in Mexico City's Colonia Roma in autumn 1942. Mexico had just declared war on Germany, and its capital became a colorful cauldron of European eÌ?migreÌ?s: German communists, Nazi spies, Spanish republicans, Trotsky and his disciples, Balkan kings, financiers, and secret agents from Allied and Axis countries alike. As the historian-turned-detective begins his investigation, he introduces us, chapter by chapter, to an eccentric parade of characters from Mexico City's political, artistic, intellectual, and upper classes. Pitol constructs a novel that turns on mistaken identities, blurred memories, and conflicting interest, and whose protagonist is haunted by the inescapable possibility that he might never uncover the truth."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Spanish as El desfile del amor in 1984. |
| Physical Description: | 271 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781646051137 1646051130 |