"Un maravilloso y sobrecogedor debut... es una obra maestra disfrazada
de novela policíaca y nada que haya leído este año se le compara".
--Junot Díaz
De Martín Solares, ganador del Premio de Ensayo Literario José Revueltas
2016.
Los minutos negros será próximamente adaptada a su versión
cinematográfica, protagonizada por Diego Luna y Demián Bichir.
Un despistado policía investiga un crimen en Paracuán, Tamaulipas, con
creciente pasmo. ¿Será aquel asesino de niñas, de los setenta? ¿El
narco? ¿La sanguinaria policía secreta? Entre un ex policía de humor
negrísimo y un jesuita devoto al vodka y la farsa, el detective
descubrirá que la vida en esta ciudad es una oscura sinfonía donde todos
sus integrantes tienen deudas con la ley.**
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ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Breathless, marvelous... Latin American fiction at its pulpy,
phantasmagorical finest... A literary masterpiece masquerading as a
police procedural." --Junot Diaz
When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional
Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals
missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years
earlier. As police officer Ramón "el Macetón" Cabrera discovers, Blanco
had been writing a book about a 1970s case dealing with the murder of
several young schoolgirls in Paracuán by a man known as El Chaneque.
Cabrera realizes that whoever killed Blanco wanted to keep the truth
about El Chaneque from being revealed, and he becomes determined to
discover that truth.
The Black Minutes chronicles both Cabrera's investigation into
Blanco's murder and goes back in time to follow detective Vicente
Rangel's investigation of the original El Chaneque case. Both narratives
expose worlds of corruption, from cops who are content to close the door
on a case without true justice to powerful politicians who can pay their
way out of their families' crimes. Full of dark twists and turns, and
populated by a cast of captivating--and mostly corrupt--characters, The
Black Minutes is an electrifying novel from a brilliant new voice.
"Mr. Solares is a graceful, even poetic, writer, especially in his
hard-boiled dialogue and his descriptions of the wildly varied
landscapes and ethnic types of northern Mexico." --Larry Rohter, The
New York
