The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón PDF Download

Author: Carlos Gamerro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908276506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A mash-up of revolutionary guerillas and business self help in this hilarious and clever collision of opposites in 1970s Argentina

Author: Gloria Lisé
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558616470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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“[A] quiet, powerful novel” of a young woman caught in the chaos of Argentina in the mid-1970s, when speaking against the government could mean death (Publishers Weekly). March 23, 1976. Berta watches horrified as her lover, a union organizer named Atilio, is thrown from a window to his death by soldiers. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’état and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. And even though she was never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a list to be “disappeared.” Fleeing to relatives in the countryside, she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts music from an old record player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. But soon enough, Berta realizes she must run even further to save her life—and those she has come to love. With a prose that is light yet penetrating, Gloria Lisé has written “a beautifully simple, poetic story of solidarity and love, with memorable characters painted in the tender strokes of a watercolor” (Luisa Valenzuela, author of Black Novel with Argentines).

Author: Carlos Gamerro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781908276087
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Falklands War novel--as if scripted by Roberto Bolaño and the South Park team.

Author: Eva Baltasar
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9392099703
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname "Boulder." When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no—and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien. With motherhood changing Samsa into a stranger, Boulder must decide where her priorities lie, and whether her yearning for freedom can truly trump her yearning for love. Once again, Eva Baltasar demonstrates her preeminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world—and in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga.

Author: Carlos Gamerro
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1906548722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe returns to the town where Darío met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses and evasion ensue-desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community, even Fefe himself, is afraid.

Author: Silvia G. Dapia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000011704
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four years as an émigré in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and finally Vence, France. His works have always been of interest to those studying Polish or Argentinean or Latin American literature, but in recent years the trend toward a transnational perspective in scholarship has brought his work to increasing prominence. Indeed, the complicated web of transnational contact zones where Polish, Argentinean, French and German cultures intersect to influence his work is now seen as the appropriate lens through which his creativity ought to be examined. This volume contributes to the transnational interpretation of Gombrowicz by bringing together a distinguished group of North American, Latin American, and European scholars to offer new analyses in three distinct themes of study that have not as yet been greatly explored — Translation, Affect and Politics. How does one translate not only Gombrowicz’s words into various languages, but the often cultural-laden meaning and the particular style and tone of his writing? What is it that passes between author and reader that causes an affect? How did Gombrowicz’s negotiation of the turbulent political worlds of Poland and Argentina shape his writing? The three divisions of this collection address these questions from multiple perspectives, thereby adding significantly to little known aspects of his work.

Author: Sub-Sectariat of Information
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Languages : en
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Author: Alicia D. Ortiz
Publisher: Orbit Books
ISBN: 9780751590838
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Languages : en
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Author: Patrick Grainville
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9780916583682
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This extravagant novel marks the English-language debut of one of France's most exciting and controversial writers. At the center is a mysterious excavation site in southwest France, where the skull of a 500,000-year-old man has been discovered. Simon, a journalist assigned to do a story on the cave, is a voluptuary keenly responsive to his surroundings, finding an erotic patina over everything he sees, hears, touches, imagines.

Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)