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The Islands

English

By (author): Carlos Gamerro

Translated by: Ian Barnett

Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade spent trying to forget the freezing trench in which he passed the Falklands War, Félix is forced to confront the city around him and realises to his shock that the war never really ended.
A detective novel, a cyber-thriller, an inner-city road trip and a war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains all too raw.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 603g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 29 May 2012
  • Publisher: And Other Stories
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781908276087

About Carlos Gamerro

Carlos Gamerro is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded contemporary Argentine writers. Born in Buenos Aires in 1962 he has published six works of fiction including the novels The Islands (And Other Stories 2012 UK and 2014 North American publication) and An Open Secret (Pushkin Press). And Other Stories will publish The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón in 2015. He adapted The Islands for a major theatrical production in 2011 and writes influential works of criticism. In addition Gamerro who was brought up bilingually in English and Spanish has translated Shakespeare Auden and Harold Bloom.

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