This diverse collection brings together songs, articles, comic strips, scholarly essays, poems, and short stories. This essential introduction to Argentina’s history, culture, and society provides a richer, more comprehensive look at one of the most paradoxical of Latin American nations: a nation that used to be among the richest in the world, with the largest middle class in Latin America, yet one that entered the twenty-first century with its economy in shambles and its citizenry seething with frustration. The Argentina Reader deliberately breaks from that viewpoint. Argentina – in all its complexity – has often been obscured by variations of the “like Europe and not like the rest of Latin America” cliche. The Argentina Reader by Gabriela Nouzeilles & Graciela MontaldoĮxcessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Follow the links and QR codes to access short films, audio recordings and YouTube videos. His colleagues are frightened for him, so they call in Juan Manuel Pérez, an ex-cop, now private investigator.įar South is Pérez’s casebook, compiled as he searches for Fischer.
Theatre director Gerardo Fischer has vanished from the Argentinian artists’ colony where he was rehearsing a pioneering new work. Set in the Buenos Aires of the 1970s, Sacheri’s tale reveals the underpinnings of Argentina’s Dirty War and takes on the question of justice-what it really means and in whose hands it belongs. As he reaches into the past, Chaparro also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the investigation. The novel that was adapted into the brilliant Oscar-winning film.īenjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. Here are 5 fascinating books set in Argentina which we hope you’ll enjoy: The Secret in their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri Five great books set in Argentina.Īs one of our chosen books set in Argentina says, this enigmatic South American country is arguably ‘ like Europe and not like the rest of Latin America‘. Argentina is the latest country for us to visit in our ‘Great books set in…’ series.
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