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1) Rayuela
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires, in a novel in which the chapters are designed to be read out of numerical order but in a set sequence.
2) The butler
Author
Language
English
Description
Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten years...
3) La traición
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"They all play frivolously at the glorification of the 70s, the new" Peronist resistance "and the revolution against an imaginary dictatorship. Until suddenly someone takes fiction too seriously and is about to unleash a tragedy with no return. In Paris, a friend of the Pope fears that this matter will stain his cassock. He knows that Francisco, fond of getting into the murky waters of Argentine politics, blesses and encourages marginal characters...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich--they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left behind--Paris. There he assembles his team of con artists for their final and most ambitious theft, one that will...
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