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Hades, Argentina

Author : Daniel Loedel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593188659
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Hades, Argentina written by Daniel Loedel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALIST CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST “A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.” —Seattle Times A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love. In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has long drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of the insurgency fighting an increasingly oppressive regime. Tomás has always been willing to follow her anywhere, to do anything to prove himself. Yet what exactly is he proving, and at what cost to them both? It will be years before a summons back arrives for Tomás, now living as Thomas Shore in New York. It isn’t a homecoming that awaits him, however, so much as an odyssey into the past, an encounter with the ghosts that lurk there, and a reckoning with the fatal gap between who he has become and who he once aspired to be. Raising profound questions about the sometimes impossible choices we make in the name of love, Hades, Argentina is a gripping, ingeniously narrated literary debut.

Departing at Dawn

Author : Gloria Lisé
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558616470
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Departing at Dawn written by Gloria Lisé and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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).

Argentina Noir

Author : Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438473036
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Argentina Noir written by Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000. Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close readings and original interpretations of eleven novels, all set in or around Buenos Aires, and explores the ways these texts adapt major motifs, figures, and literary techniques in Hispanic crime fiction in order to give voice to wide-ranging social critiques. Schmidt-Cruz addresses such topics as organized crime and institutional complicity, corruption during the presidency of Carlos Menem (19891999), terrorist attacks on Jewish institutions in Buenos Aires and the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, and the winners and the losers of neoliberal structural changes. With a solid underpinning in sociological studies and criticism of the genre and its historical context, Argentina Noir reveals how these novels are renovating the genre to engage pressing issues confronting not only Argentina but also countries throughout Latin America and around the globe. This is a very significant contribution to the field. It is a full and illustrative, as well as authoritative, guide to crime fiction and the novela negra in Argentina in the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on the literatures social and political thematics. Philip Swanson, author of The New Novel in Latin America: Politics and Popular Culture after the Boom

Losers and Keepers in Argentina

Author : Nina Barragan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082632990X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Losers and Keepers in Argentina written by Nina Barragan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rifke Schulman, a Russian Jew, came to Argentina in 1889 at the age of eighteen and helped set up the small agricultural colony called Moises Ville. Rifke's journal and the accompanying short stories introduce Bela Pelatnik, a victim of the white slave trade; Henoch Rosenvitch, the love of Rifke's life; Leah Uberman on her way to attend Moises Ville's centennial celebration; and many others. The book spans the last hundred years and examines the experience of Jewish immigrants in both North and South America, some of whom were nourished by their roots, others who severed their ties to an old way of life. In looking at the choices they all made, the ways they found love or shut themselves off from it, Nina Barragan offers a moving and multidimensional portrait of early twentieth-century Argentina and its contemporary descendants.

Imagining Argentina

Author : Lawrence Thornton
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553345796
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Argentina written by Lawrence Thornton and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remarkable . . . deeply inventive . . . Thorton has imagined Argentina truly; his inspired fable troubles and feeds our own intriguing imagining.”—Los Angeles Times Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of “the disappeared.” But he cannot “imagine” what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit. Praise for Imagining Argentina “A harrowing, brilliant novel.”—The New Yorker “A powerful new novel . . . Thorton seems to have wedded his study of such writers as Borges and Marquez with thy his own instinctive gift for metaphor, and in doing so, created his own brand of magical realism”—The New York Times “Imagining Argentina is a slim volume filled with beautiful writing. It is an exciting adventure story. It is a haunting love story. And it is a story for all time.”—Detroit Free Press “The writing is crystalline, the metaphors compelling . . . Its central theme is universal.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “In a time when much North American fiction is contained by crabbed realism, Thorton takes for his material one of the bleaker recent instances of human cruelty, sees in it the enduring nobility of the human spirit and imagines a book that celebrates that spirit.”—The Washington Post Book World “A powerful first novel and a manifesto for the memorializing power of literature.”—The New York Times Book Review “A profoundly hopeful book.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Argentina, the Great Estancias

Author : César Aira
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780847819058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Argentina, the Great Estancias written by César Aira and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts buildings from twenty-two ranches in Argentina.

The Museum of Eterna's Novel

Author : Macedonio Fernández
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824062
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book The Museum of Eterna's Novel written by Macedonio Fernández and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anti-novel.' It opens with more than fifty prologues-including ones addressed 'To My Authorial Persona,' 'To the Critics,' and 'To Readers Who Will Perish If They Don't Know What the Novel Is About'-that are by turns philosophical, outrageous, ponderous, and cryptic. These pieces cover a range of topics from how the upcoming novel will be received to how to thwart 'skip-around readers' (by writing a book that's defies linearity!). The novel itself, is about a group of characters (some borrowed from other texts) who live on an estancia called 'la novella''

The Desert and Its Seed

Author : Jorge Barón Biza
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081122581X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Desert and Its Seed written by Jorge Barón Biza and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An undiscovered modern Argentinian classic, based on the tragic lives of the renowned Raúl Barón Biza (a wealthy politician and notorious writer) and his wife Rosa Clotilde Sabattini The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia’s face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the acid from Eligia’s face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a fruitless attempt to reconstruct Eligia’s face—first in Buenos Aires, thereafter in Milan. Mario, the narrator, becomes the shadow and witness of the reconstruction attempts to repair his mother’s outraged flesh. In this role, he must confront his own terrible existence and identity, both of which are bound to an Argentina he sees disintegrating around him. Based on a true, tragic family story, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed was rejected by publishers in Buenos Aires and was finally self-published in 1998, three years before the author committed suicide. Written in a captivating plain style with dark, bitter humor, The Desert and Its Seed has become a modern classic, published to enormous acclaim throughout the Spanish-speaking world and translated into many languages.

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Author : Jacobo Timerman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299182441
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number written by Jacobo Timerman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Argentine newspaper publisher who dared to criticize his government's policy of cruel repression, tells the story of his arrest, imprisonment, and torture.

Argentine Dictator

Author : John Lynch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842028981
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Argentine Dictator written by John Lynch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentine Caudillo: Juan Manuel de Rosas, is John Lynch's new edition of his 1981 book, which is now out of print. The original has been shortened, making it well-suited for classroom use. The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Darwin, who met him on campaign against the Indians, described him as "a man of extraordinary character," the lord of vast estates and, for over twenty years, absolute ruler of Buenos Aires and its province. The present book studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines through him the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina. It reconstructs the world of great estates and the rise to power of their proprietors, establishing the relation of patron and client, of master and peon, the basis of political allegiance at that time. Argentine Caudillo follows the career of Rosas as a classical caudillo, who rescued his people from fear and anarchy and delivered them into the hands of a great dictatorship. Leader of the gauchos, yet representative too of the powerful landed proprietors and cattle exporters, Rosas established an early prototype of a totalitarian state and employed systematic terror to defend his rule. The book helps to elucidate the concept and practice of caudillismo, or personal dictatorship, in the Hispanic world, and the use of violence to seize and defend power. It does this against a backdrop of transition from colony to independence, and then from anarchy to absolutism. Argentine Caudillo provides a detailed study of the use of state terror as an instrument of policy, one of the few such studies for any period of Latin American history. There is no book which duplicates this work either inside Argentina or outside. In Argentina, Rosas has become a subject of fierce controversy, partly because of his nationalism, partly because of his reign of terror. Consequently, while there is a vast bibliography on Rosas, much of it is polemical and

The Fragility of Bodies

Author : Sergio Olguin
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN 13 : 1912242206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Fragility of Bodies written by Sergio Olguin and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 bodies hit at speed by their locomotives in the middle of the night. Aided by a train driver with whom she has a tumultuous and reckless affair, a junkie in rehab and two street kids willing to risk everything for a can of Coke, she uncovers a group of men involved in betting on working-class youngsters convinced to play Russian roulette by standing in front of fast-coming trains to see who endures the longest.

X-ray of the Pampa

Author : Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292701403
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book X-ray of the Pampa written by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, when its author was approaching forty years of age, X-Ray of the Pampas is multidimensional: part history, part essay in social psychology, part prophecy. -- Introduction.

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau

Author : Graeme Macrae Burnet
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1913393585
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau written by Graeme Macrae Burnet and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By a Booker Prize nominee and an internationally bestselling author: a captivating homage to Georges Simenon, an absorbing character study and a highly original detective story. Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl’s disappearance, Manfred’s repressed world is shaken to its core and he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past. The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau is a literary mystery novel that is, at heart, an engrossing psychological portrayal of an outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination.

Savage Theories

Author : Pola Oloixarac
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 180081819X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Savage Theories written by Pola Oloixarac and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of seduction and madness, animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov and Bolaño. Buenos Aires. The mysterious narrator, who is a student at the School of Philosophy stalks a middle-aged professor, desperate to reveal that she alone understands his theories. Unable to earn his affection, she strategically seduces a former leftist guerilla and toys with him, blurring the lines between prey and predator. Parallel to this narrative, we follow little Kamtchowsky as she grows from sexually liberated adolescent to transgressive documentary filmmaker. Through her and her boyfriend Pabst's intellectual and sexual misadventures, we witness the underground scene of Buenos Aires as they dabble in ketamine, group sex, video games and pornography. As an aside, in 1917 Africa, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet theorises the development of beast into man, and humanity's longstanding flirtation with beastly acts. Climaxing with an Internet hack that catalogues historical violence, devastation and atrocity throughout the centuries, Savage Theories is a kaleidoscopic collage that is spellbinding, strange and ground-breaking.

The Argentine Novel

Author : Myron I. Lichtblau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Argentine Novel written by Myron I. Lichtblau and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a scholar of Romance languages at Syracuse University, Lichtblau (1925-2000) extended his 1997 bibliography from 1990 through 1999 and added some earlier works left out of the original. Citations from the mother volume are included but without the critical commentaries and bibliographical references. The arrangement is alphabetical by author, and the articles discuss, in Spanish, both novels and critical studies of them and of the author. No index is provided. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A State of Fear

Author : Andrew Graham-Yooll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780601885
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A State of Fear written by Andrew Graham-Yooll and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fate's Ransom

Author : Jeff Wheeler
Publisher : 47North
ISBN 13 : 9781542027427
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Fate's Ransom written by Jeff Wheeler and published by 47North. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal, war, and the risks of loyalty collide in the epic conclusion of the First Argentines series by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Lady's Ransom. Ransom Barton has served three Argentine kings. The new successor to the throne is the ruthless Jon-Landon, a fallible strategist when it comes to war. After losing against the Occitanian armies, the king forces Ransom to bear the blame and removes him from the council. But Jon-Landon isn't yet through with humbling the honorable knight of Ceredigion. When a retaliatory battle succeeds, Jon-Landon invites Ransom back into his circle. Though Ransom's Fountain magic is made stronger by his fealty, he's once again forced to make a terrible choice. And this time, Ransom's wife, Claire, and their sons could pay the price for Ransom's loyalty. But as tensions between Ceredigion and Occitania reignite and alliances at court begin to crumble, a desperate Jon-Landon discovers his only ally is the knight he betrayed. With the future of Kingfountain hanging in the balance, Ransom agrees to help. And as secret enemies reveal their endgame, Ransom knows that he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice for the survival of the Argentine dynasty.