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GOLPES BAJOS/LOW BLOWS
INSTANTANEAS/SNAPSHOTS |
| By: |
Alicia Borinsky, Cola Franzen (Trans), Michael Wood (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299216004 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299216009 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 February, 2007 |
| Series: |
Americas S. |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Language: |
English, Spanish |
| Description: |
Includes short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages). This work provides glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children. |
| Synopsis: |
In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children - a gallery of characters from a broad spectrum of contemporary Argentine society. She portrays a world of violence, corruption, love, and betrayal. The brevity of the pieces suggests a breathlessness and ephemeral quality, the fast-paced rhythm of the present. Yet within these small moments flicker the larger forces that shape ordinary lives. Civil wars are fought, shady deals are made, unwanted children are born. And in Borinsky's ironic but life-affirming prose, human foibles are exposed. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |