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My Tender Matador: A Novel
Pedro Lemebel
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Description for My Tender Matador: A Novel
Paperback. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine (New Directions). BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 215 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202.
Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a ... Read more
Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780802141873
SKU
V9780802141873
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