Paz Pardo
Auteur de The Shamshine Blind
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: photo by Enrique Lozano
Œuvres de Paz Pardo
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- Argentina
- Études
- Stanford University
Michener Center for Writers, University of Texas (MA)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 87
- Popularité
- #211,168
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 7
Falklands WarMalvinas War and continued on to occupy the United States. The Argentinian military developed a weapon called psychopigments -- clouds of colored powder that can alter people's emotions. The first, and deadliest is called Deep Blue, which destroys a person's memories. Military use of this psychopigment has turned the large American cities into ghost towns, the new metropolises are now located in places like Boise.The story follows Kay Curtida, an psychopigment enforcement agent tracking down illegal pigments in the sleepy backwater of Daly City, whose proximity to a still dangerous San Francisco keeps it irrelevant. She dreams of the big time, pursuing complex cases instead of chasing petty criminals. Then a case turns out to be bigger and more interesting than anything she's ever seen. Is this her chance to finally get a transfer to the bright lights of Boise?
The first twenty pages of this novel were hard going. There's a lot of world building going on, which interrupts the flow of the story, and this part of the book is overwritten; there isn't a noun that escapes without an adjective or two. Fortunately, as the scaffolding of this alternate version of 2009 is finally erected, the adjectives also calm down and the story takes off. And that story is a lot of fun as Curtida tries to figure out what exactly is going on. The story involves a photogenic religious leader, a pawnbroker who collects all sorts of junk, an old love interest, Curtida's hopeful mother and a host of other colorful characters. While it does take longer to get going than most detective novels, this is an imaginative take on the genre.… (plus d'informations)