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Date: 1981

Crime Crime Requiem for Brown

James Ellroy

1981

Detective Fritz Brown, a former alcoholic obsessed with classical music, especially Beethoven's, is not a conventional detective: he was kicked out of the Los Angeles police years ago and he still has to move sometimes on the verge of the law to get ahead. Brown has a very peculiar way of handling his cases. A beggar-looking caddie but a lot of money, for example, offers him a thousand dollars to watch over the rich Jewish fighter with whom his sister lives for a few days. But she turns out to be very attractive, and a passionate cello, plus, and Brown decides to follow her too and investigate where her strange client gets so much money...

Science fiction Science fiction God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

1981

There have been millennia in Arrakis, and the planet once desert is green alive. Leto Atreides, the son of the savior of the world, Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human being. To preserve the future of humanity, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sand worm, giving him almost immortality as the Emperor God of Dune for the last three thousand five hundred years.

Portada de The World's End War de Mario Vargas Llosa
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Fiction Fiction The World's End War

Mario Vargas Llosa

1981

At the end of the 19th century, in the pauperrime lands of northeastern Brazil, the spark of the harasses of the Councillor, a messianic and enigmatic character, will open the insurrection of the disinherited. In extreme circumstances such as those, the achievement of life dignity can only come from religious exaltation - the fanatic conviction of the divine choice of the world's marginalized - and the radical breach of the rules governing the world of the powerful.