CEGADOS Parte III

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...

La entretenida es una típica comedia de capa y espada de Miguel de Cervantes. Fragmento de la obra Jornada primera (Salen Ocaña, lacayo, con un mandil y harnero, y Cristina, fregona.) Ocaña: Mi sora Cristina, denmos. Cristina: ¿Qué hemos de dar, mi so Ocaña? Ocaña: Dar en dulce, no en huraña, ni en tan amargos extremos. Cristina: ¿Querría el sor que anduviese de pa y vereda contino? Ocaña: No hay quien ande ese camino que algún gusto no interese. Cristina: Siempre la melancolía fue de la muerte parienta, y en la vida alegre asienta el hablar de argentería. Motes, cuentos,...

In this 10th novel from author Diamela Eltit, the protagonist is a young woman from a marginal neighborhood who works as a prostitute in a cyber cafe, her life at the height of tragedy and misfortune. The setting is a section of town surrounded by police special forces. But in a sad yet defiant play on words, the special forces of the title also refer to the will required to resist, to survive on the edge of society under such forms of repression and oppression. Violence and the scars left on bodies both physical and social appear in many of Eltit's novels, carefully constructed with uneasy...

This is a satirical/historical novel of the life of a fictional Soviet era artist, Vladimir Daniilovich Myukis who was orphaned during the Second World War. By the early 1950s, Myukis now in a street gang of war orphans was arrested by the police for vandalism. The vandalism consisted of drawing large pictures of elephants on the bombed out buildings in hisw native city of Novogrudok in what is now Belarus. The arresting officers realized that Myukis had real art ability so they sent him to art school. From there he was recruited into the KGB where he forged signatures for their agents. He...