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Gamerro, Carlos

 
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ISBN 10: 1908276509 ISBN 13: 9781908276506
Editorial: And Other Stories, 2015

Sinopsis

1975. The cusp of Argentina’s Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlán, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Perón in all ninety-two offices of Argentina’s leading construction company, Tamerlán & Sons. Tamerlán’s head of procurement, Ernesto Marroné, is the man tasked with the job, but he soon finds out that his is a mission for executives of a heroic disposition. His subsequent picaresque journey plunges him into a world of occupied factories, the slums of Buenos Aires and the utopian Evita City. Equipped with his trusty copy of Don Quixote: The Executive-Errant, Marroné is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Perón – that maid of myth and legend whom we know as Evita. A stand-alone novel in its own right but also a prequel to his first novel, The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012), Carlos Gamerro’s caustic and utterly original novel is a shattered window onto Argentina’s recent past.

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Carlos Gamerro, born in Buenos Aires in 1962, is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers. He has written four novels, including The Islands (1998) and An Open Secret (2002), which Pushkin Press published in 2011. He adapted The Islands for a major theatrical production in 2011.

Gamerro, who was brought up bilingually in English and Spanish, has translated Shakespeare, Auden, and Harold Bloom, and lectures in 20th century literature in Buenos Aires.



Ian Barnett has lived in Buenos Aires since 1991, translating and promoting many Argentinian and other South American writers. He collaborates closely with Carlos Gamerro and has already translated Gamerro’s novels The Islands, and An Open Secret. Reviews of The Islands often made a point of praising his inventive, athletic ‘feat of translation’ (the Observer). Barnett has been translating from Spanish and French into English since 1994. He is a lecturer on the Masters Program in Translation at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires.

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Editorial
And Other Stories
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1908276509
ISBN 13 
9781908276506
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
416
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