Hailed by The New York Times as an Argentinian tour de force.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Manuel Puig
EAN: 9781564785800
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 219
WEIGHT: 312 g
HEIGHT: 210 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Dalkey Archive Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-07
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GENRE: FICTION / Thrillers / General
WIDTH: 162 mm
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Book Themes:
Thriller / suspense fiction, Fiction in translation
Manuel Puig is the acclaimed author of many novels, including Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and The Buenos Aires Affair. He was born in Argentina in 1932 and died in Mexico in 1990. Having translated Manuel Puig, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and other notable authors, Suzanne Jill Levine is one of the most highly regarded translators of contemporary Latin American literature. She is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.
