Argentina

Books set in Argentina, a country in South America

Things We Lost in the Fire
Ficciones
El túnel
Hopscotch
The Invention of Morel
Fever Dream
Tender Is the Flesh
Our Share of Night
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Bad Girls
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Elena Knows
Bestiario
Eartheater
Jacobo Timerman
The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on the mother's face, an obscene insult to the sister, or the sexual violation of a daughter. Suddenly an entire culture based on familial love, devotion, the capacity for mutual sacrifice collapses. Nothing is possible in such a universe, and that is precisely what the torturers know… From my cell, I'd hear the whispered voices of children trying to learn what w ...more
Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number

It is strange that Switzerland, an independent state in the middle of continental Europe, freely provides Swiss passports to descendants of people from far-off places without background checks or any sort of probationary period. They only need to submit their photos and fingerprints, and a Swiss passport will arrive in the mail a few weeks later, in Barcelona or anywhere, seemingly without much consideration. Considering the Nazi vibes and the Nazi Gestapo methods used by Israeli, Spanish, Brit ...more
Tomas Adam Nyapi, BARCELONA MARIJUANA MAFIA

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