Ergebnis für "The Acapulco" in Literatur & Belletristik

A serial killer is on the loose in Hamburg, targeting dancers from The Acapulco, a club in the city's red-light district, removing their scalp as a gruesome trophy and replacing their hair with plastic wigs. Chastity Riley is the state prosecutor responsible for crimes in the district, and she's working alongside the police as they investigate. Can she get inside the mind of the killer?

Sérgio Telles revela com este conjunto de textos um perfeito domínio do gênero. Alternando o ponto de partida de seus contos entre situações corriqueiras e inesperadas, ele consegue instaurar climas insólitos que fascinam e prendem o leitor – cumprindo, assim, o postulado básico da boa literatura. (...) Constituído basicamente por registros urbanos, Mergulhador de Acapulco impressiona pela variedade das situações que aborda, alternando climas introspectivos e outros explícitos. Todos marcados por uma construção elaborada, que configura, afinal, uma vigorosa visão do mundo contemporâneo.

Dici Acapulco e pensi a spiagge di sabbia finissima, mare cristallino e palme accarezzate dalla brezza. Ma oggi la perla del Pacifico è molto diversa dall’immagine da cartolina usata per attirare i turisti. Il narcotraffico si è insinuato in città e gli omicidi sono all’ordine del giorno. Ad Acapulco vive Lydia, che si divide tra il lavoro in libreria e la famiglia: il marito Sebastián, giornalista, e il figlioletto Luca, otto anni e un’intelligenza fuori dal comune.

In January 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed to enter a treaty agreement that would be labeled START II. The Russian SS-20 medium-range missile was to be removed from Eastern Europe...Nine 150 kt nuclear bombs were unaccounted for...This story is mostly fiction. Some of the characters are real, most are not. The year is 1987. This was the last year of the Reagan presidency. It would be nearly 30 years before we would see anything like it again.

"Acapulco" contains nearly 30 new poems as well as work drawn from the earlier collections Plausible Fictions and The Narrators. Murray's wonderful reading covers a broad field including wry observations of his native Liverpool and profoundly moving love poems and concludes with the full text of "Get Real!", a powerful traditionally-constructed satirical "broadside" on the coalition Government, which was performed by the Iris Theatre Company at St Paul's Covent Garden in 2011.