Palaciegos
Durii Editorial · Negra y Thriller · Narrativa · Adultos (+18 años)
Synopsis
Gaby Piqué sees himself as a journalist past his prime. After years away from the profession, ground down by addiction, he is put on the trail of one of the biggest corruption cases in the history of Palaciegos, a small city south of the capital, worn out by neglect and indifference. There was a time when Piqué ran an influential local weekly and shone in the city. Now all he wants is to leave it behind, because he can no longer find a reason to stay.
Palaciegos is a genre novel charged with sharp political and social criticism, built around a plot that is very hard to step away from. In his second novel, Valbuena has brought together a cast of characters instantly recognisable from contemporary life. The hunger for power, greed, speculation, love, jealousy and a commitment to a kind of journalism already on the verge of extinction all converge in these pages.
Machine translation, pending review.
Technical data
- ISBN
- 978-84-10075-15-3
- Format
- Softcover
- Pages
- 294
- Dimensions
- 152 × 228 mm
- Weight
- 648 g
- RRP
- €20.00 (VAT included)
- Publication
- 4 September 2024
- Edition
- Edition 1
- Legal deposit
- M-19222-2024
- Language
- spa
- Imprint
- Durii Editorial
- Series
- Negra y Thriller
- Age
- Adultos (+18 años)
Classification
Corrupción · poder · periodismo · redención · decadencia · ambición · secretos
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Distribution: Azeta in Spain · Panoplia de Libros in Latin America · Direct distribution from the publisher
Rights
Translation rights available for all languages.
Jesús Valbuena Blanco
Madrid · 1980
He has spent more than twenty years working as a journalist in the south of the Community of Madrid, across print media, news agencies, press offices and radio. Alongside a number of literary prizes, his editorial work includes the short story collections El último duelo (2014) and Desmemoria (2019), the novel Triángulo equilátero (2019), and two collaborative titles with Luis M. Moreno: Héroes de Papel (winner of the Narrative Prize at the Certamen de Creadores por la Libertad y la Paz in Seville, 2015) and Semillas de Ceniza (2016).
Machine translation, pending review.
