Malvinas Requiem: Visions of an Underground War - Couverture souple

Fogwill, Rodolfo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852429658 ISBN 13 : 9781852429652

Editeur : Serpent's Tail, 2007

Synopsis

It?s early June 1982 and winter in the Falkland Islands: 24 young soldiers ??deserters from the Argentine army ??spend the last weeks of the conflict hiding underground in a cave. Inside their refuge they listen to the radio, stockpile supplies and exchange stories; outside, under cover of night, they trade with the Argentine Quartermaster and with the British. Looking out over the bleak landscape, after weeks of grey skies and horizontal snow, one of them remarks that ?you?d have to be English to want this?. But the rationale of their own side is just as puzzling. The ?pichis?, as they call themselves ? short for pichiciegos, tiny blind armadillos that live underground in northern Argentina ? are a temporary tribe of survivors from different parts of the country (just as the English all seem to them to be either Scottish, Welsh or Gurkhas) with the bad luck to have been born in the early 1960s. Written before the surrender and recently reissued in Argentina, Fogwill?s Malvinas Requiem is shocking, subtle and superbly written.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

During the '60s and '70s Rodolfo Fogwill was a well known entrepreneur and the owner of one of the major market research organizations in Latin America. In the '80s he wrote opinion columns in a dozen magazines and newspapers. He is still respected as an articulate critic of the transition to democracy in Argentina. Since the '90s he has been a familiar face in the media, frequently asked to comment on politics, culture and literature. In 2004 he won the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship and in 2005 the National Award for Literature, the major Argentine book prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Serpent's Tail
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852429658
• ISBN 13: 9781852429652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible