A beautiful young woman
Subtitle: a novel
By: Julian Lopez ; translated from the Spanish by Samuel Rutter
Contributors: Rutter, Samuel, translator
Edition: First English language edition.
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781612196817
Subjects: Mothers and sons; Loss (Psychology); Abduction; Political violence; History; Children of disappeared persons; Fiction
Work titles: Muchacha muy bella
Description: ""A moving story. powerful, celebratory, and loving." -- Laura Cardona, La Nacion. Set in the midst of Argentina's military dictatorship, a poignant and evocative debut novel about family, political violence, and the consequences of dissidence  As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires -- which has recently been taken over by Argentina's military dictatorship. When the boy returns home one day to find his mother missing (or "disappeared"), the story fractures, and the reader encounters him fully grown, consumed by the burden of his loss, attempting to reconstruct the memory of his mother.  By leaping forward in time, the boy -- now a man -- subtly gives shape to his mother's activism, and in the process recasts the memories from his childhood. The result is a stylistically masterful and deeply moving novel marking the English-language debut of one of Argentina's most promising writers"--
Notes: First published in Spanish as Una muchacha muy bella. Primera edición. Buenos Aires : Eterna Cadencia, 2013.