Details
The Islands
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10,79 € |
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| Verlag: | And Other Stories |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 29.05.2012 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781908276131 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 300 |
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Beschreibungen
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 immersed in drugs and virtual realities, 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 Islandsis a hilarious, devastating and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains all too raw.
Carlos Gamerro, born in 1962, is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers. He has written four novels, including The Islands andAn Open Secret (Pushkin Press). He adaptedThe Islands for a major theatrical production in 2011.Gamerro, who was brought up bilingually in English and Spanish, has translated Shakespeare, Auden, and Harold Bloom, and lectures in 20th century literature in Buenos Aires.
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