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'Galndez' is a novel by Manuel Vzquez Montalbn, 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 Jess de Galndez 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 Galndez' 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.
The novel was made into a film in 2003, called 'El Misterio Galndez' (literally "The Galindez Mystery", but also known as "The Galndez File"). The film stars Saffron Burrows and Harvey Keitel.
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Category:1991 novels
Category:Novels by Manuel Vzquez Montalbn
Category:20th-century Spanish novels
Category:Novels set in the Dominican Republic
Category:Spanish novels adapted into films
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