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Javier Garcés’ days are counted. The strange combination of success and bad rep that constitute his fortune doesn’t really much matter to the writer any more. His goal is to make his last six months into the best months of his life. To accomplish this, his plan is clear: he will kill his worst enemies. Knowing once he starts there is no turning back, he plots with calculated moves, one by one, five murders. A scathing critic, a failed writer, a vain journalist, a thieving editor, and a mysterious woman: These are the five victims Javier Garcés hopes to wipe out before he dies. Every one of them has conspired against him,
Javier Garcés’ days are counted. The strange combination of success and bad rep that constitute his fortune doesn’t really much matter to the writer any more. His goal is to make his last six months into the best months of his life. To accomplish this, his plan is clear: he will kill his worst enemies. Knowing once he starts there is no turning back, he plots with calculated moves, one by one, five murders. A scathing critic, a failed writer, a vain journalist, a thieving editor, and a mysterious woman: These are the five victims Javier Garcés hopes to wipe out before he dies. Every one of them has conspired against him, against his work. For this reason, Javier is not looking to accomplish something as simple as revenge or an act of divine justice. His is a quest for the obliteration of ugliness and the restoration of beauty a purely aesthetic gesture. In this first installment of the Morirás mañana trilogy, behind the cruel but funny crimes plotted by our main character, the often abhorrent reality of the literary worldor more appropriately the system it represents, with its critics, editors, agents, authors and readersshines through.
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Manufacturer: Alfaguara
Release date: 1 June 2006
ISBN-10 : 1616052457 |
ISBN-13: 9781616052454
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