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Murder at Isla Negra
Estelle Monbrun (ENG)
After Proust, Yourcenar and Colette, Estelle Monbrun once again gets inspiration from a writer’s universe to write a detective novel over an historical backdrop : Spanish political refugees who arrived in France after the fall of Barcelona in 1939 and were dumped in camps, while Neruda chartered a boat, the Winnipeg, helping them to get back to Chili.
On this island, la villa Pablo Neruda, "built as a P on a promontory overlooking the house of Chili’s most famous poet", welcomes artists of all kinds. One morning, Maria Loncomilla, the unhappy chambermaid, is forced to confront the formidable Villa director to inform her of the disappearance of Celia Martin, one of the guests...
Presse & Librairie
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