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“I admire Simenon but I don’t think I owe him anything – I’ve always paid my dues. On the other hand, I feel indebted to Chandler, Goodis, James Cain, Ed McBain (he inspired by Navarro the way he inspired Steven Bochco for Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue), and many others who are perhaps harder to spot in my writing.”
In Photo Finish, Valentine and Christian return to Casablanca after a 40-year absence. Though they’ve been together for ages, it’s obvious that the great love of Valentine’s life was Andrè, whose mysterious suicide they try to unravel. One at a time, they meet men and women who knew André and with whom they grew up at the end of the French colonization of Morocco. As they try to reconstruct the ambiguous truths behind André’s death, a heartrending portrait emerges of a generation torn by the colonial sweet life, rebellion and existential dilemmas as it faces the end of an era. According to the author, Photo Finish is “a nostalgic journey into Morocco on the eve of independence. A noir on memory. And above all a book that speaks to us, unabashedly and emotionally, of the crimes committed by a society that did not know how to avoid the ruin of its youths.” |
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