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The Secret of Vesalius
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Jordi Llobregat began writing at the age of twelve after watching the film The Man from Acapulco with Jean Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset. He currently combines writing with his work as head of a company that works on community development in cities. His work has been included in several short story anthologies and he is a member of the writing group, El Cuaderno Rojo. He is director of the noir fiction festival, Valencia Negra. The Secret of Vesalius is his first novel and has been published in eighteen countries worldwide. He lives in Valencia, Spain.
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“Daniel Amat has tried to make a new life for himself far away from Barcelona and the family tragedy of seven years ago, however the death of his father draws him back. Pau Gilbert is a brilliant trainee surgeon who is harbouring a secret. Bernat Fleixa is a talented but struggling journalist convinced that there is a monster on the loose in Barcelona mutilating young street girls. Together they must try to solve the mystery of the murders despite the animosity of the powerful and the corrupt on the eve of the World's Fair.
This book has had many rave reviews and is a best-seller worldwide and it is easy to see why. The plot is labyrinthine, the characters larger than life and complex and the setting is unusual. Of course at its heart it is a gothic horror adventure which leans heavily on Frankenstein for structure but adds a few twists along the way. As a read it is perfectly enjoyable if a little overwrought.”
About Jordi Llobregat
Jordi Llobregat began writing at the age of twelve after watching the film The Man from Acapulco with Jean Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset. He currently combines writing with his work as head of a company that works on community development in cities. His work has been included in several short story anthologies and he is a member of the writing group, El Cuaderno Rojo. He is director of the noir fiction festival, Valencia Negra. The Secret of Vesalius is his first novel and has been published in eighteen countries worldwide. He lives in Valencia, Spain.
Thomas Bunstead
Thomas Bunstead's translations include work by Eduardo Halfon and Yuri Herrera, Aixa de la Cruz's story "True Milk" in Best of European Fiction (Dalkey Archive, 2015), and the forthcoming A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas (a co-translation with Anne McLean; New Directions, 2015). A guest editor of a Words without Borders feature on Mexico (March 2015), Thomas has also published his own writing in the Times Literary Supplement, the Paris Review blog and >kill author.
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