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In his decision to write a straightforward, no-nonsense thriller about transatlantic baby-smuggling and the Catholic Church, John Banville, a veritable emperor of baroque prose, has not so much taken a vow of poverty as put in a sly bid to extend and reinforce his stylistic dominion. ... Those familiar with Banville will have expected nothing less; the neophyte, however, who picks up this racy little number anticipating nothing more than a night of brisk casual thrills may soon be surprised to find himself in the grips of a literary passion he had not gambled on.
It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpseâ??and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidiousâ??and very well-guardedâ??secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black's debut marks him as a true master of the f
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Al dipòsit de cadà vers on treballa Quirke sempre és fosca nit. Però hi ha secrets que no es poden mantenir ocults i acaben sortint a la llum. Un dia, després d’una festa i amb algunes copes de més, Quirke sorprèn el seu cunyat, l’eminent ginecòleg Malachy Griffin, manipulant la fitxa del cadà ver d’una jove. Potser pretén ocultar la causa de la mort? Per què? Quin misteri oculta la dissortada Christine Falls? En la recerca de la veritat, Quirke descobreix prà ctiques criminals i una societat catòlica clandestina que opera entre DublÃn i Boston i que podria tenir implicades persones molt poderoses i, fins i tot, membres de la seva pròpia famÃlia.
Aquesta és la primera novel·la que el prestigiós autor John Banville, distingit amb el premi Man Booker per El mar, publica sota el pseudònim de Benjamin Black. Una nova identitat per a una novel·la poderosa i captivadora que eleva el thriller a la mà xima categorÃa.
http://www.bromera.com/especial/benjaminblack/