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Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten years...
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"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz--nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...
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"A decade after fleeing the violence of Argentina's Dirty War, a man discovers he must grapple with the ghosts of his past. It was the most obvious thing in the world that I'd follow her wherever she went. I always had. In 1976, Tomás Oriilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he's moved in hopes of reuniting with Isabel, a childhood crush. But the reckless passion that has always drawn him is leading Isabel ever deeper into the ranks of...
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Vintage Español, Vintage Books, una division de Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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La obra más conocida de Manuel Puig, "el brillantemente inventivo novelista argentino" (The New York Times), es ahora el tema de una premiada comedia musical. El beso de la mujer araña es una elegante y fascinante novela sobre el amor y la victimización. En una cárcel argentina, dos hombres comparten una celda: Molina, un diseñador de escaparates homosexual que es egoísta, auto-denigrante y al mismo tiempo encantador; y Valentín, un revolucionario...
5) Optic nerve
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Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Whenever I'm in survival mode I find myself magnetised by museums and galleries, like people running for air raid shelters in wartime." The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled...
6) Slum virgin
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Charco Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police officers, prostitutes, transvestites, thieves, drug dealers, cumbia music and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed to be a ?revelation for contemporary literature? and ?pure dynamite? (Andraes Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves, Pushkin Press). Slum Virgin tells the larger-than-life story of Cleopatra, a transvestite...
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Berenice
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Durante la posguerra barcelonesa, la vida no es nada fácil para María. Solo el amor parece dar tregua a tanta pobreza, aunque su pasión por el señor Albert sea un imposible que malogrará su inocencia... y condicionará la vida de otra mujer. ¿Qué relación existe entre María e Isabel, que vivirá en el Buenos Aires de 1976, durante la dictadura de Videla? ¿De qué modo está vinculado el secuestro de esta última con el pasado de aquella...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Tras ser atracada y despojada de sus ultimos euros, Lena vaga perdida por las calles de una enorme y desconocida ciudad al otro lado del mundo -Buenos Aires-, mientras se pregunta en que momento aquella escapada le parecio una buena idea. Tal vez despues de haber recibido un video en el que su prometido aparecia acostandose con la stripper de su despedida de soltero, o tras la ultima gran discusion con su ultraconservadora madre cuando cancelo su...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentación de retirarse a su cabaña en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde allí a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jardín con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formación del pensamiento científico, el nacimiento de la botánica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo xviii. Al mismo tiempo,...
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Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"By one of Argentina's greatest contemporary storytellers, The Scent of Buenos Aires gathers twenty-five of Hebe Uhart's most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time. It draws together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South...
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