La novia gitana / 1
by Carmen Mola
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THE GIPSY BRIDE /
Inspector Elena Blanco has to raise every fold of the Gypsy Bride’s veil to get to the truth: who hated Susana so much, who hated her sister and her father? While working on the case she will have to deal with a dangerous murderer, a vengeance, the age-old religion and the revelation of some terrible facts about herself.
“In Madrid there are not many murders committed”, deputy inspector Ángel Zárate’s old mentor in the police force used to say, “but when they happen, there is nothing the other cities can be envious of”, would add inspector Elena Blanco, the Head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a police department created for resolving the most complicated and most heinous crimes. Susana Macaya, a Gypsy girl, educated in a non-gypsy environment, disappears after her hen party. Nothing is known about her until two days later when her body turns up in the run-down Quinta de Vista Alegre park with its abandoned gardens in the district of Carabanchel. It might have been just another routine investigation, were it not for the fact that the victim was brutally tortured and that her sister Lara, also about to be married, also a young and beautiful Gypsy girl had been murdered in the same manner seven years before. Lara’s killer is serving a sentence in prison, so there are only two possibilities: it is either a copycat murder or an innocent person has been imprisoned. This is why the Head of Operations, inspector Rentero decides to take the case from young Zárate and give it to the experienced Elena Blanco. She is a peculiar character, a loner, a fan of grappa, of karaoke, of old Soviet cars and of romantic encounters in underground parking bays. A very special police officer who keeps working in the force because she must not forget that there is a case in her life she cannot close. To investigate implies getting to know people, revealing their secrets, their lack of consistency, their life. In the case of Lara and Susana it will be necessary to delve into the life of the Gypsies who have renounced their customs in order to integrate into the society as well as into the life of those who condemn such attitudes and do not forgive. It will also require acknowledging petty displays of racism they face every day…
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France/Actes Sud, Norway/Gyldendal, Germany/Penguin Verlag, The Netherlands/Xander, Italy/Mondadori, Greece/Klidarithmos, Finland/Like, Japan/Harper Collins
Audiovisual rights: Viacom/CBC Diagonal TV
Reviews
“Who is Carmen Mola? Does it matter? Her novels captivate us by their overwhelming originality, make us want more, much more, when, horrified, we realize that we are on the last page.”
Jordi Llobregat, Director of the Valencia Negra Festival
“From the very first page, Carmen Mola, whoever she is, proves to have her own voice and be it noir or any other genre it means a lot. Perhaps it is half of the success. Or more.”
Lorenzo Silva, Director of the Getafe Negro Festival
The noir novel either mutates or insulates itself. Carmen Mola is a mutating writer. The bad thing about her is that you cannot invite her to a festival.”
Carlos Zanon, Director of BCNegra Festival
Author Biography
Carmen Mola is a pseudonym. The author, born in Madrid, who has decided to remain anonymous, has for this reason been called “the Spanish Elena Ferrante” by the literary critics. With her first novel, La Novia Gitana, she initiated in 2018 a series with Inspector Elena Blanco. The novel has become a bestseller and has won the acclaim of the critics. It has been translated in seven countries and will be adapted for a television series by Viacom/CBC and DiagonalTV. La Red Purpura published in 2019 is the second novel in the series and soon La Nena, the long-awaited third volume has been published in April 2020. The trilogy, sold over 250.000 copies up to date.
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- Publisher/Imprint Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial / Alfaguara Negra
- Publication Date May 2018
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788420433189
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Copyright Year2018
- Page size404
- Series Part1
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