Returning as shadows

Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Original title: Retornamos como sombras

first published 2001 Joaquin Mortiz Editorial, 2001 paperback 509 pages

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"In 1991, Paco Taibo II wrote The Shadow of a Shadow, a book about four men who meet to play dominos in a hotel bar in Mexico City. The time is 1922, and the men are a motley group - a poet who makes a living writing advertisements for patent medicine, a radical Chinese-Mexican union organizer, a lawyer who represents prostitutes, and a newspaper crime reporter who churns out pages of copy "like links of sausage in...

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Editions we hold

Retornamos como sombras paperback · 2014 · Txalaparta, S.L. · 454 pages · 9788415313779
Returning as shadows edition · 2003 · Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press · 455 pages
Retornamos Como Sombras paperback · 2003 · Planeta · 432 pages · 9789504910527
Retornamos Como Sombras paperback · 2003 · Destino · 9788423333844
Nous revenons comme des ombres paperback · 2002 · Rivages · 377 pages · 9782743609887
Retornamos como sombras : Cuando la vida se vuelve incoherente, llega la novela a repararla / We Return As Shadows paperback · 2001 · Joaquin Mortiz Editorial · 509 pages
Retornamos Como Sombras paperback · 2001 · Destino · 514 pages · 9788423333455

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