Malvinas Requiem [Paperback]

Rodolfo Fogwill (Author)

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Serpent's Tail (Oct 1 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1852429658
ISBN-13: 978-1852429652
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 14.6 x 1.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 118 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #790,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“ Malvinas Requiem has a well-earned spot as the major literary piece on Argentina’s only twentieth-century war.”— Buenos Aires Herald

It’s early June 1982 and winter in the Falkland Islands: twenty-four young soldiers—deserters from the Argentine army—spend the last weeks of the conflict hiding underground in a cave. Inside their refuge, they listen to the radio, stockpile supplies, and exchange stories; outside, under cover of night, they trade with the Argentine quartermaster and with the British. Looking out over the bleak landscape, after weeks of gray skies and horizontal snow, one of them remarks that “you’d have to be English to want this.”

About the Author

During the '60s and '70s Rodolfo Fogwill was a well known entrepreneur and the owner of one of the major market research organizations in Latin America. In the '80s he wrote opinion columns in a dozen magazines and newspapers. Since the '90s he has been a familiar face in the media, frequently asked to comment on politics, culture and literature.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the greatest living Argentine writer, Dec 12 2009

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"Malvinas Requiem" ("Los Pichiciegos" in the original) tells the story of a group of young Argentine soldiers during the Falklands War with England (1982) that decide that is better not to fight and hide in a hole in the ground, where they tell stories, listen to radio and have some exchanges with the surprised English military. Some sequences are hilarious, some heartbreaking. Written during the war, and first published "underground". A tremendous book that captures like no other a way of speaking, a way of thinking and the final days of the military rule in Argentina.

This is the only book available in English (so far) of perhaps the greatest living Argentine writer.

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