Antonio Garrido Libros

En 1929, el joven y avezado Jack Beilis conducía su propio automóvil, vestía trajes a medida y frecuentaba los mejores clubs de Detroit. Pero la brutal crisis que aquel año azotó América lo arrojó, junto a millones de compatriotas, al hambre y la desesperación. Desahuciado y perseguido por un oscuro crimen, embarcará junto a su amigo Andrew hacia la legendaria Unión Soviética, el idílico imperio en el que cualquier hombre tenía derecho a trabajar y ser feliz, sin sospechar los extraordinarios avatares que les tenía reservados el destino. Inspirada en hechos reales, El último paraíso Antonio Garrido funde magistralmente thriller, amor y novela histórica en la dramática epopeya de un superviviente en un mundo dividido. Un formidable fresco de una época convulsa que dio un nuevo rumbo a la historia.

After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself--or was murdered. His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí's gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth--especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself. Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating. The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza). Antonio's previous novel, La Escriba, was published in 2008.