Dinero facil /Easy Money (Spanish Edition) (Trilogia Negra De Estocolmo / the Stockholm Noir Trilogy)

By Lapidus, Jens

Publishers Summary:
The Stockholm Noir Trilogy I Stockholm s underworld is the gutter where all of Swedish society s waste ends up: drug addicts, prostitutes, gangsters, thieves, gangs... Each focused on defending its territory and turning a profit at any cost, they play freely throughout the pages of a cutting novel where police make their appearance only in legal documents. Jean Lapidus is the brilliant young writer behind a page turner that reinvents the detective genre. With this novel, he comes into play with the likes of Larsson and Mankell. Spanish Description: Trilogia negra de Estocolmo I Los bajos fondos de Estocolmo son un sumidero al que han ido a parar todos los desechos de la sociedad sueca: drogadictos, camellos, putas, mafiosos, ladrones, bandas. Todos quieren defender su territorio y lucrarse a cualquier precio. Campan a sus anchas por las paginas de esta incisiva novela y la policia solo aparece en las actas judiciales. Una novela policial sin policias donde el objetivo es obtener Dinero de la forma mas facil posible. Jorge, JW y Mrado forman parte de la fisonomia de estos bajos fondos. Jorge esta entre rejas, aunque en poco tiempo se fuga para cargarse al chivato que lo enchirono. Mrado se ve incapaz de compatibilizar su papel de maton yugoslavo con el de padre que lucha por la custodia de su hijita. Y JW conduce un taxi mientras se viste con ropa de Marc Jacobs de segunda mano e intenta aparentar ser de una clase social a la que no pertenece. La enigmatica desaparicion de Camilla, la hermana mayor de JW, sera el nexo de union de sus tres vidas y el desencadenante de un deseo de venganza con un denominador comun: el gran capo Radovan. Jens Lapidus es el brillante y joven escritor que esta detras de esta absorbente novela, con la que reinventa el genero policiaco. En ella, con la precision de un neurocirujano, hace una incision en la sociedad sueca, y nos la muestra cruda, indiferente y escindida. Con Dinero facil, Lapidus entra directamente en la pugna literaria de autores como Larsson y Mankell.

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ISBN
978-9-87041-361-5
Publisher
Suma


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2010  |  Spanish Books

Written by a criminal lawyer, this book is the first in the "Stockholm Noir" trilogy and has been a best seller in several languages. Drug addiction links three criminals inhabiting separate yet interlocking spheres of the Stockholm underworld: Jorge, an imprisoned drug dealer; Mrado, a Serbian mafia member; and J.W., a luxury-obsessed rich kid. As the narrative progre...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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