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Ana María Shua - Death as a Side Effect - 9780803229891 - V9780803229891
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Death as a Side Effect

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Description for Death as a Side Effect paperback. A novel about a dystopic, future Argentina where violence rules and the government is powerless to protect its aging citizens Translator(s): Labinger, Andrea G. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
In Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shua’s brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated “convalescent” homes, never to return. Abandoned by his mistress, suffocated by his father, and estranged from his demented mother and ineffectual sister, Ernesto seeks his vanished lover. Hoping to save his dying father from the ministrations of a diabolical health-care system, he discovers that, ultimately, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Latin American Women Writers
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803229891
SKU
V9780803229891
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About Ana María Shua
Ana María Shua has published more than forty books in many genres, including poetry, children’s fiction, and Jewish folklore, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on The Book of Memories and is the author of Microfictions, available in a Bison Books edition. She lives in Buenos Aires. Andrea G. Labinger’s ... Read more

Reviews for Death as a Side Effect
"Shua laces her small, powerful narrative with humor, and her insight into the human condition, particularly in her vision of a city run amuck, has resonance."-Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly "Death as a Side Effect strikes a brilliant balance between the downbeat subject matter and the dark humour running through the whole novel. It is absurd, bleak and funny. Ernesto is ... Read more

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