Title of translation:
Carabanchel Blues
Original title:
Carabanchel Blues
Original author:
Lorenzo Silva
Country of origin:
Spain
Translator:
Kevin Gerry Dunn
Date of source text publication:
2016
Date of translation publication:
2022
Abstract:
“Carabanchel Blues”, a short story written by multi-award-winning Spanish author Lorenzo Silva, is taken from Madrid negro ([Madrid Noir] Siruela, 2016), an anthology in which several of Spain’s most renowned authors of crime fiction share stories set across Madrid. The story takes its name from the largely working-class Carabanchel District of Madrid, a site of intense fighting during the Spanish Civil War and one of the city’s most diverse areas. In it, Silva introduces the character Manuela Mauri, a police investigator who is the protagonist of the novels Si esto es una mujer [If This Is a Woman] (2019) and La forja de una rebelde [The Forging of a Rebel] (2022), both co-written with Noemí Trujillo. --Kevin Gerry Dunn, the translator.
Genre:
Narrativa / Narrative
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