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Description for Islands
Paperback. Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan and charged with finding witnesses to a very public crime. Refusal is not an option. After a decade immersed in virtual realities, trying to forget the Falklands War, Felix has to confront the city - and realises that the war never really ended. Translator(s): Barnett, Ian. Num Pages: 548 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 600.
Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade spent trying to forget the freezing trench in which he passed the Falklands War, Félix is forced to confront the city around him – and realises to his shock that the war never really ended.
A detective novel, a cyber-thriller, an inner-city road trip and a war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating and dizzyingly surreal account of a history ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
And Other Stories
Number of pages
548
Condition
New
Number of Pages
548
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276087
SKU
V9781908276087
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Ref
99-15
About Carlos Gamerro
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) and An Open Secret (Pushkin Press). And Other Stories will publish The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón ... Read more
Reviews for Islands
'Carlos Gamerro has written one of the most ambitious novels about the war.' Jonathan Blitzer, The Nation
- 'Gamerro picks history's what-the-fuck moments, which when found in fiction are so strange as to knock the reader momentarily out of the imaginary world.' Ben Bollig, The Guardian
- 'Exhilarating, inventive and consistently absorbing.' Stuart Evers, The Guardian
- 'A bravura piece ... Read more
- 'Gamerro picks history's what-the-fuck moments, which when found in fiction are so strange as to knock the reader momentarily out of the imaginary world.' Ben Bollig, The Guardian
- 'Exhilarating, inventive and consistently absorbing.' Stuart Evers, The Guardian
- 'A bravura piece ... Read more