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Article: A brief (happy) talk with Paco Ignacio Taibo II. (Latin America: Private Eyes & Time Travelers) (Interview)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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The last few years have witnessed an explosion of detective fiction
in Latin America. From Buenos Aires to Havana, the publication of
native thrillers, often embarrassingly ignored by critics, has been and
remains a favorite pleasure for thousands of readers. The most prolific
practitioner is Paco Ignacio Taibo II (b. 1949), who despite his young
age has more than 30 books to his credit, most of them with his
protagonist Hector Belascoaran Shayne, a prosaic, lame, one-eyed private