Summary
Jose Carlos Somoza: Clara and the Half-Shadow
After the award-winning crime novel The Cave of Ideas, which takes place in ancient Greece, with the thriller Clara and the Half-Shadow, the Spanish novelist Jose Carlos Somoza takes us to the near future, imagining the world of the so-called hyperdramatic art, in which artists "paint" using living people as painting "canvases".
When she is chosen as a model in the exhibition of the most famous painter of hyperdramatic art Van Tysch, Clara will experience the realization of her lifelong dream, but it will soon turn into a nightmare - someone is killing the young girls-canvases from Van Tysch's previous exhibitions...
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