The last reader
By: David Toscana ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Contributors: Zatz, Asa.
Series: The Americas; Americas (Lubbock, Tex.)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780896726642
Subjects: Girls -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Librarians -- Fiction; Books and reading -- Fiction; Mexico -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Último lector.
Description: "A small town in the Mexican desert has a library where few are interested in books. The only reader is the librarian who sees everything through the lens of literature. When a girl is found dead in the librarian's well, he uses novels to lead police directly to the murderer"--Provided by publisher.