Selva Almada
1) Dead Girls
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English
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In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.
Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together...
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Graywolf Press
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English
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A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity
Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro and Marciano, Ángelito's older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between
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Español
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La moto con la cual Ernesto Guevara y Alberto Granado hicieron su viaje iniciático por la América profunda se llamaba La Poderosa.
Hace unos años, unas personas, compañeras y compañeros que adosaron a sus necesidades la memoria, fundaron la "Asociación Civil La Poderosa Integración por la Educación Popular". Hace tiempo que se los conoce fuera de sus barrios por una notable revista que dieron en llamar La garganta poderosa.
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English
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The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca.
As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes...