| Author: | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán |
| Translator: | Carol & Thomas Christensen |
| Country: | Spain |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Publisher: | Seix Barral |
| Publisher2: | Atheneum |
| Pub Date: | 1990 |
| English Pub Date: | 1992 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 343 p. |
| Isbn: | 9788432206238 |
| Oclc: | 1024348007 |
Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990.[1] It centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA.[2] 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 Galíndez' 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 Galíndez (literally "The Galindez Mystery", but also known as "The Galíndez File").[3] [4] [5] The film stars Saffron Burrows and Harvey Keitel.