MUERTE DE UN GENERAL
Publicado en Tailandia, República Checa, Reino Unido, Países Bajos, Japón, Italia, Hungría, Francia, EUA, España, Canadá, Brasil, Australia, Alemania
DESCRIPCIÓN
Cuadro de una micro-sociedad en la cual los apetitos de poder han reemplazado a los ideales y en la cual el cinismo es la justificación, agitada por antagonismos de toda clase, por el flujo y reflujo de rencores y odios largo tiempo incubados, por el enfrentamiento de camarillas rivales, la novela de John Ralston Saul combina magistralmente aventuras y política-ficción y se desarrolla a un ritmo jadeante. El lector asiste fascinado a una descripción estremecedora del crepúsculo de la era Gaullista.
“Muerte de un General” es, sin embargo, algo más que una novela de serie negra de inspiración política. Narra, por encima de todo, un episodio extraordinario y poco divulgado del histórico ajuste de cuentas entre de Gaulle y su ejercito.
Revisiones por pais
Reino Unido
The Times
“Perversely poetical….You read on, held.”
Sunday Times
“Different and sinister…”
Financial Times
“Real life has been acting out Baraka’s fictional episodes in an uncanny way.”
“An absorbing book. As the investigation grips the hero, it grips the reader.”
Daily Telegraph
“The book, which was published in France, has already caused a sensation there, where political novels are a recognized form of art.”
British Book News (London)
“A cold exposé of the international traffic in the tools of death and destruction…cleverly constructed and has a quality of driving intensity.”
Estados Unidos
Publisher’s Weekly (New York)
“Vicious corporate infighting, corruption in Thailand, high- and low-life in Rabat and an amazing trek across the Sahara, the book holds us tight.”
Chicago Tribune
“Saul’s masterly narration rises to the level of art….Fiction that makes paranoia a delight.”
Francia
Le Nouvel Observateur
“Saul’s novel, captivating thought it is, sends shivers down the spine, makes the heart miss a beat and allows us to glimpse a moral truth – that any mind plunged into a tank infested by dollars will be subjected to the sort of treatment that would make a piranha proud.”
“This crusade without mercy from the boulevards of Paris to the dirt tracks of Normandy cannot be put down until it is finished.”
Le Monde
“An uncontrollable hornet’s nest. A vast and bloody game of GO played out across the world. Saul questions the fate of morality at a time when large corporations can unleash the dogs of ward. His hero…is the victim of a new world where one does not die for an idea, but for a portfolio of shares.”
Le Canard Enchaine (Paris)
“Saul has launched a megaton bomb.”
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