Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be "disappeared" by the military government—murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbors.Twenty years later, young Fefe returns to the town where Darío met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses, and evasions ensue—desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community is afraid.Carlos Gamerro lives in Buenos Aires and has published five novels, a book of short stories, and numerous works of literary criticism.

An Open Secret

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

GAMERRO, CARLOS

Thrillers & Suspense

Pushkin Press

"Exhilarating, inventive, and consistently absorbing."—The Guardian
Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán 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, Félix has to confront the city.
Detective novel, cyber-thriller, inner-city road trip, and war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating, and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains raw.
Carlos Gamerro, born in 1962, is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers.

The Islands

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

And Other Stories

1975. The cusp of Argentina’s Dirty War. The magnate, Fausto Tamerlán, has been kidnapped by guerrillas, who as part of their ransom demands have stipulated the placement of a bust of Eva Perón in all ninety-two offices of Argentina’s leading construction company, Tamerlán & Sons. Tamerlán’s head of procurement, Ernesto Marroné, is the man tasked with the job, but he soon finds out that his is a mission for executives of a heroic disposition. His subsequent picaresque journey plunges him into a world of occupied factories, the slums of Buenos Aires and the utopian Evita City. Equipped with his trusty copy of Don Quixote: The Executive-Errant, Marroné is a modern knight who finds himself forced to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Perón  that maid of myth and legend whom we know as Evita. A stand-alone novel in its own right but also a prequel to his first novel, The Islands (And Other Stories, 2012), Carlos Gamerro’s caustic and utterly original novel is a shattered window onto Argentina’s recent past.

The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

Humor & Satire

Darío Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government - murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe returns to the town where Darío met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses and evasion ensue - desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community, even Fefe himself, is afraid.

United States

Un viaje alucinante por la geografía y la historia del continente americano y la de su fatal espejo, la cultura europea. &nbsp; «Una novela sólida y creativa, que trasciende la mera anécdota y, por momentos, incluso la retuerce». --Juan Pablo Bertazza, La Nación &nbsp; París, 1889. La ciudad se prepara para la gran Exposición Universal y la Argentina opulenta participa con un fastuoso pabellón al gusto francés, sin saber que en las inmediaciones un aventurero belga planea exhibir en una jaula, como animales salvajes, a un grupo de indios onas capturados en Tierra del Fuego, y presentarlos como «antropófagos patagónicos». &nbsp; Uno de ellos, el muchacho Kalapakte, logra huir y, deambulando a la sombra de la recién erigida Torre Eiffel, conoce al joven anarquista Karl, quien participó en su construcción. Juntos emprenden una particular odisea por Europa y las tierras americanas, un regreso repleto de aventuras y peligros que ponen en evidencia las miserias y contradicciones de un siglo que termina y otro que recién empieza. &nbsp; La jaula de los onas es la nueva novela de Carlos Gamerro, quien recurre una vez más a su sorprendente repertorio estilístico y literario para relatar, con humor y rigor, un viaje alucinante por la geografía y la historia del continente americano y la de su fatal espejo, la cultura europea. &nbsp; ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A mind-blowing journey through the American Continent's landscape and history, as well as their fatal mirror, European culture. "A solid and creative novel that transcends mere anecdote and, at times, even twists it." --Juan Pablo Bertazza, La Nación &nbsp; Paris, 1889. The city prepares for the World's Fair, and opulent Argentina participates with a magnificent French-style pavilion, not knowing that a Belgian adventurer nearby intends to showcase a group of Ona natives he captured in Tierra del Fuego as if they were wild animals in a cage, and present them as "Patagonian cannibals." &nbsp; One of them, the young Kalapatke, manages to flee. And wandering under the shadow of the recently erected Eiffel Tower, he meets Karl, a young anarchist who joined in its construction. Together they embark on a peculiar odyssey around Europe and the American territories, a homecoming full of adventures and dangers that expose the misery and contradictions of a century now ending and of one that just begun. &nbsp; The Cage of the Onas is Carlos Gamerro's new novel. Once again, he resorts to his amazing stylistic and literary repertoire to recount a mind-blowing journey through the American Continent's landscape and history, and that of their fatal mirror, European culture.

La jaula de los onas / The Cage of the Onas (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Literatura Random House

Borges solía bromear que nadie –ni siquiera él mismo– había leído el Ulises completo. La lectura de principio a fin de esta obra es una de las aventuras más desafiantes de la literatura universal. Ulises. Claves de lectura es la primera guía en español –para todo tipo de lectores– que invita a recorrer una de las novelas más influyentes del siglo xx. Joyce quería que el Ulises, aparte de ser una novela, fuera una suma de todos los saberes de su tiempo, y también de los saberes anteriores: una enciclopedia. Carlos Gamerro, quien estudió y enseñó el Ulises durante más de veinte años, invita tanto a los lectores comunes como a los especializados a sumergirse en este laberinto repleto de personajes complejos, de referencias simbólicas, históricas, musicales y literarias, a través de un lenguaje más coloquial que académico, y a probar que Borges se equivocó.

Ulises. Claves De Lectura

Interzona

UN YUPPIE EN LA COLUMNA DEL CHE GUEVARA (Spanish Edition)

Edhasa

ISLAS, LAS (Spanish Edition)

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An Open Secret

The Islands

The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

An Open Secret

La jaula de los onas / The Cage of the Onas (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Ulises. Claves De Lectura

UN YUPPIE EN LA COLUMNA DEL CHE GUEVARA (Spanish Edition)

ISLAS, LAS (Spanish Edition)