
Spanish Beauty
Esther Garcia Llovet
£12.99
Description
Meet Michela – English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother – a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. In the company of this unorthodox, magnetically compelling character, cult writer Esther Garcia Llovet takes us on a breath-taking, high-speed, anarchic romp through the underbelly of the pearl of the Costa Brava, Benidorm, on the hunt for Reggie Kray’s stolen cigarette lighter.
Beyond the sunburn and all-day fry-ups, in casinos, bars that are fronts for money laundering and flashy high society parties, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters: English gangsters, Russian mafiosi, chancers, no-hopers, and low-life of all complexions in this unconventional yet literary thriller. With a turn of phrase that always astonishes, an eye for detail that is as forensic as it is cinematic, a sense of humour as dry as a glass of fino, and a wilful desire to break conventional genres, Llovet’s book feels like the best of Almodovar in surreal, novel form.
Publisher Review
Garcia Llovet reveals her full talent with this novel – electric, pop, hugely enjoyable and perfectly cinematographic. I want Tarantino to film it. — Aloma Rodriguez A love letter to THE city of mass tourism and a noir that is totally committed to originality. — Francesca de Sanctis A very well-written and disconcerting book, that is short, elusive and genre breaking, all set beneath “clouds scattered strangely like spelling mistakes. — Jeremy Black, Murders of 2024 * The Critic Magazine *
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