Ricardo Piglia
Birth date: November 24, 1941
Ricardo Piglia's Books
“Allora compresi quello che già sapevo: ciò che possiamo immaginare esiste sempre, in un’altra scala, in un altro tempo, nitido e lontano, come in un sogno”. Il lettore ha tante vite quante quelle dei personaggi che incontra. Allo stesso modo ha tanti mondi. Entra nel fantastico e scorge il reale,...
BOTWOperation Massacre: R4 BOTWSummer 2013> Pub 1957TranslationTrue GrimeBBC BLURB: A Latin American true crime classic set in Argentina.On the evening of the 9th June 1956 in an apartment in Buenos Aires, between twelve and fourteen men were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a rebellion again...
Written in a sort of disorientating and hallucinatory style this book, which was based on an actual event, was at first a bit hard to get into. After I got my bearings, I found this a gripping, though graphically violent, look at the underbelly of Argentine life in the sixties.
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