This Breathing World
by Jose Luis de Juan
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A pair of thrillers are placed up against each other in this connected collection of murder mysteries. One takes place in first-century Rome and tells the tale of Mazuf, a homosexual scribe who is driven to kill. The second is set in the modern day United States and seems to focus on the sexual exploits of a Harvard student until it is revealed that he, too, is a murderer. The two mysteries are constructed as reflections of each other, like mirrors set up in a deserted ballroom, enveloping show more readers in the stories of the young murderers told through their eyes. "Succeeds brilliantly in constructing [an] edifice of mirrors and echoes."-TLS show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- Este latente mundo
- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters*
- Mazuf
- Important places*
- Rome, Harvard
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, LGBTQ+, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Suspense & Thriller
- DDC/MDS
- 863.64 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish Literature Spanish fiction 20th Century 1945-2000
- LCC
- PQ6660 .U27 .E8813 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Individual authors, 1961-2000
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- 39
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- (2.25)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
