When Ramirez, an Argentinian exile and invalid in his seventies, who is confined to a wheelchair and unable to feel emotions, hires Larry, a young, down-on-his-luck American, a curious, multi-layered relationship develops

Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

Literature & Fiction

Manuel Puig

Contemporary

Vintage

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell, each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.

Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Queer Classic Everyone Should Read

Vintage Books

KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN

LGBTQ+ Books

In an Argentine prison, the growing friendship between a thirty-sevenyear-old homosexual, Molina, and a young Marxist, Valentin is threatened when police officials start pressuring Molina to spy against Valentin

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Literary

Alfred.A. Knopf

This novel, about the conscious and unconscious lives of two women, focuses on a woman of the seventies convalescing in a hospital bed and a Viennese actress of the thirties

Pubis Angelical (An Aventura Original)

Blood of Requited Love

Faber&Faber

Within reach of fame and love, with sexually crippled, emotionally uneasy Gladys, Leo Druscovich fears detection of the murder he committed twenty years earlier and, at the same time, compulsively seeks to punish himself

Buenos Aires Affair

Genre Fiction

Faber and Faber

In a conversation with Maria de Gloria, Josemar Ferreira, a poor Brazilian, tries to recreate the days of his adolescence

Blood Of Requited Love

United States

Univ. of Minnesota Press

KNOPF

Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.\n'Dazzling... a triumph' Observer\nSometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their Buenos Aires prison cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause that makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love that makes all else endurable.\nThough they seemingly share little other than a cell, the two form a bond so intimate - and a relationship so profoundly affecting - that only the other could understand.\n'A visionary work that breathed life into certain dimensions of human possibility long before society at large was prepared to imagine them.' Carolina de Robertis, Los Angeles Review of Books

Vintage Classics

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Books by Manuel Puig

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Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages

Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Queer Classic Everyone Should Read

KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Pubis Angelical (An Aventura Original)

Blood of Requited Love

Buenos Aires Affair

Blood Of Requited Love

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Queer Classic Everyone Should Read