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Galíndez
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Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990. It centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA. The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize.
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Vinony's link graph records 6 inbound references to Galíndez, and connects out to novel, International Standard Book Number and Basque Country.
It is catalogued under topics including 1990 Spanish novels, Novels by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Novels set in the Dominican Republic.
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- Author
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
- First published
- 1990
- Editions
- 4
- Subjects
- Fiction, Politics and government
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
- Country of origin
- Spain
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- title
- Galíndez
- form of creative work
- novel
- derivative work
- The Galíndez File
- publication date
- 1990-00-00
- language of work or name
- Spanish
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Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990. It centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA. The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize.
The detective and narrator of the novel is Muriel Corbert. She is a history graduate who seeks out the truth of Galíndez' fate. In doing so she travels from the United States, to Spain and then the Dominican Republic, and uncovers a conspiracy between Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, the CIA and Francoist Spain.
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