An Olympic Death

by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Author), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Author), Ed Emory (Translator)

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  1992

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  As Barcelona prepares for the Olympics, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, new stadia and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Pepe Carvalho?who remembers the good old days when a hammer was always to be found with a sickle?is forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Carvalho tries to come to terms with the new values of the present, his life - gastronomic, amatory and professional confronts the disillusion of middle age.

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  2003

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  As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho ? who remembers the good old days when a hammer always came with a sickle ? now finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Montalb?n?s overweight hero cruises the backstreets of the Barcelona dream, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.