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 Islands is a hilarious, devastating and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains all too raw.
Autorentext
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.
Titel
The Islands
Autor
EAN
9781908276131
ISBN
978-1-908276-13-1
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
29.05.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
0.53 MB
Anzahl Seiten
300
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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