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Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
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Tijuana city blues
This is the first part of Gabriel Trujillo Munoz's Mexicali City Blues series/collection. Amazing. Short but not sweet. Munoz shows does not tell the reader. You are right in the middle of the intrigue without any down time or side steps. The hero is a mix of old noir boiler novel and Sherlock Holmes. It's well done. So the plot of this story is set around the Beat poet/novelist Burroughs' time in Mexico and the quest of a man for his lost father. Nothing is simple and it's a wonderful introduction to the dark world of that region of the border between Mexico and the USA.
