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A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon

A Small Death in Lisbon

by Wilson, Robert

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9780151006090
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New York: Harcourt. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart cover. Stated First U. S. Edition with full letter line.. 1.41 x 9.32 x 6.48 Inches. 448 pages. 1941. Klaus Felsen, forced out of his Berlin factory into the SS, arrives in a luminous Lisbon, where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs, dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's assignment takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a devious and brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's bliztkrieg. There he meets the man who plants the first seed of greed and revenge that will grow into a thick vine in the landscape of post-war Portugal. Late 1990s. Investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past, Inspector Ze Coelho overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones from Portugal's fascist past. This small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation for an even older crime, and Coelho's stubborn pursuit of its truth reveals a tragedy that unites past and present. Robert Wilson's combination of intelligence, suspense, vivid characters, and mesmerizing storytelling richly deserves the international acclaim his novel has received. .

Synopsis

A Small Death in Lisbon is a crime novel by Robert Wilson. The novel, set in Portugal, consists of two narratives: one is the contemporary investigation by Inspector José "Zé" Coelho into the death of a young girl, and the other begins in World War II and examines events during German operations in the country. This eventually joins with the main narrative. The novel won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 1999, and the German Crime Prize (for an International Novel) in 2003.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
A Small Death in Lisbon
Author
Wilson, Robert
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0151006091
ISBN 13
9780151006090
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Keywords
FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, HISTORICAL
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction / Historical;

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