Carlos Gamerro

Broschiertes Buch

The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

Beschreibung

1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate Tamerlan has been kidnapped by guerrillas, demanding a bust of Eva Peron be placed in all 92 offices of his company. The man for the job: Marrone. His mission: to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron, the legendary Evita. A caustic and original take on Argentina's history.

Autor

Carlos Gamerro is one of the best-known and most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers. Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, he has published six works of fiction, including the novels The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012 UK and 2014 North American publication), An Open Secret (Pushkin Press, 2011) and The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón (And Other Stories, 2015). He adapted The Islands for a major theatrical production in 2011 and writes influential works of criticism. In addition Gamerro, who was brought up bilingually in English and Spanish, has translated Shakespeare, Auden, and Harold Bloom. Ian Barnett has lived in Buenos Aires since 1991, translating and promoting many Argentinian and other South American writers. He collaborates closely with Carlos Gamerro and has already translated Gamerro's The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012) and An Open Secret. Reviews of The Islands often made a point of praising his inventive, athletic "feat of translation" (Observer UK). Barnett has been translating from Spanish and French into English since 1994. He studied French literature and linguistics, and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is a lecturer of the Masters Program in Translation at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9781908276506
• ISBN-10: 1908276509
• Artikelnr.: 40701020