Hailed by The New York Times as aan Argentinian tour de force.a
Manuel Puigas masterful and ironic adetective novela concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queensa"Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Haywortha"all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe DaOnofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of aevidenceaa"lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogationsa"these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another . . . and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands.
Genre: Thriller
Manuel Puigas masterful and ironic adetective novela concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queensa"Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Haywortha"all combining to make a powerful portrait of two decidedly unglamorous lives: Gladys Hebe DaOnofrio, a lonely 35-year-old sculptor, tormented by her fantasies and perpetually in search of the ideal lover; and Leo Druscovich, an outwardly confident and successful art critic, deeply troubled by a terrible guilt that surfaces in his repeated sexual failures. Taking on, exchanging, and growing into the roles of victim and criminal, their lives presented through a variety of different kinds of aevidenceaa"lists, scribbled notes, transcripts, one-sided interrogationsa"these two lost souls gradually find themselves entirely dependent on one another . . . and heading towards precisely the sort of violent ending a detective novel demands.
Genre: Thriller
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