The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuou
Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of
"Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel Garcia Marquez."—Kirkus ReviewsA passionate political and psychological thriller se
The highly anticipated, autobiographical life’s work from the visionary Argentine novelist who brought Latin American letters out from Borges’s shadow and into the postmodern era bookended
Originally published in 1957, this gripping book recounts the author's attempt to find not only the survivors but widows, orphans, political refugees, fugitives, alleged informers and anonymous heroes
