The Name of a Bullfighter - Hardcover

Sepulveda, Luis; Ruta, Suzanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151001936 ISBN 13: 9780151001934

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

Written by the author--a Chilean ex-patriate--of The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, a novel of intrigue follows a race between a onetime guerilla and a former spy to recover a stolen treasure.

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Review:

The Chilean expatriate novelist Luis Sepulveda, who scored a major hit in the Spanish-speaking world with his 1992 book The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, has concocted an adventure tale about a quest for missing Nazi gold. The main characters include a Chilean revolutionary named after a famous matador, a pair of former SS agents, and a Swiss insurance investigator; they meet up in the desolate reaches of Tierra del Fuego in their search for the Wandering Crescent Collection, a set of 63 priceless gold coins that disappeared from Nazi Germany in 1943. Sepulveda blends the tense adventure of a Frederic Forsyth novel with a Borgesian sensibility--and manages to pull it off.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0151001936
• ISBN 13: 9780151001934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211