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Luis Sepulveda. Nombre de Torrero. Barcelona. Tusquests. 1994 (released 1995). 233 . ISBN 84-7223-774-5.
Luis Sepulveda (b. 1949), a Chilean novelist and compulsive traveler, is the author of the international best seller Un veijo que leia novelas de amor, which became a huge success in 1992 when published in France. Since then, a couple of other works have been published with fanfare in Spain, including the one under review, a thriller about a handful of legendary golden coins stolen during the Nazi period and which, five decades later, Juan Belmonte and Frank Galinsky, fanciful characters, mythical Borgesian opponents, are hired to relocate.
Sepulveda has become a friend and acolyte of Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexico's detective novelist par excellence--a prolific if careless writer and historian, born exactly the same year as Sepulveda, whose more than three dozen novels, including Some Clouds and An Easy Thing, total some 10,000 pages. Taibo's boisterous style...