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Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work are threatened when she's asked to assist in the re-embalming of the museum's pride and joy: two horses-of great national and historical significance-are disintegrating and...
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Series
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"When she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train tracks, journalist Veronica Rosenthal decides to investigate. For the police the case is closed (suicide is suicide), for Veronica it is the beginning of a journey that takes her into an unfamiliar world of grinding poverty, crime-infested neighborhoods, and train drivers on commuter lines haunted by the memory of...
4) Fate
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This novel focuses on a group of characters who are all in different ways endeavouring to take control of their fate. Their desire to lead a genuine existence forces them to confront difficult decisions, and to break out of comfortable routines. Karl and Marina have been together for ten years and have a young son, Simon. Karl is a German-born oboist at Argentina's national orchestra, and Marina is a meteorologist. On a field trip, she meets fellow...
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch, innocent of nothing except murder, finds an unidentifiable corpse handcuffed in the trunk of his car, and must find a way to keep out of jail."--
Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in the trunk of his BMW. As far as...
7) Ficciones
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Language
English
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Description
The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
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Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de México desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prácticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dejó paralítica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos años después en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
A powerful Buenos Aires newspaper editor committed to weeding out political corruption at the highest levels begins an obsessive affair with Reina, a woman half his age, and becomes a victim of his own pride and desire for control when she decides to leave him.
12) Café solo
Author
Series
Barco de vapor. Serie roja volume 158
Publisher
SM
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
14) El túnel
Author
Series
Language
Español
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Description
Un loco pintor argentino asesina la mujer que él ama.
Juan Pablo Castel is a painter imprisoned for the murder of Maria Iribarne. During his confinement, he reveals the chain of events that led him to lose control.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
Un hombre conduce despreocupadamente por una ruta solitaria. En el asiento trasero va Azul, su hija de nueve anos. De pronto el auto se queda sin combustible. Es de noche y no tienen mas remedio que caminar en busca de ayuda. Finalmente encuentran una casa habitada por personas extranas...Asi empieza este misterio que requiere de lectores valientes...
16) Shantytown
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone - including two innocent teenage girls - to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers,...
17) The silentiary
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Silentiary (1964) happens in a nameless Latin-American city during the years after World War II. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary preconditions. It is the second of three novels by Antonio Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation in allusion to the dedication of the first one, Zama (1956), 'To the victims of...
18) Final de juego
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
This book is basically a game, a game for the reader. The last story in the book "End of the Game" is simply the end of that joy that we feel when we read. Determined to go beyond the laws of conventional narrative, in these stories Julio Cortázar combines intertextuality, an unpublished use of the informal, and the never-ending game to make the reader enter a unique universe where nothing is what it seems. From the masterful Continuidad de los parques...
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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"In the tradition of surrealist masters Julio Cortázar and Leonora Carrington, and joining contemporaries Guadalupe Nettel (Bezoar & Other Unsettling Stories) and Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds), Argentine writer Patricia Ratto's English language debut collection, Proceed With Caution, offers an alternate reality that is both mysterious and familiar. Whether it's a malevolent act born from the paranoia of living under a totalitarian regime,...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In the streets of the Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires, a series of characters in extreme situations tries to survive the collapse of a country and its terrible consequences. The Argentinean crisis obliges an older couple to take on a job delivering pizzas at night. Aldo and Rosita Peyró travel the streets of Flores, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, like two teenagers, ready to face the economic disaster. In their nighttime journeys, they see up...
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