by Hector Tizon · Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A. de C. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789507820090
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«El gallo blanco» is a short story collection by Argentine writer Héctor Tizón, published in 1992 by Alfaguara in paperback (193 pages, in Spanish).
Seven stories follow an upper-middle-class family in an Argentine town in the 1930s, immersed in a patriarchal society bound to fading customs and the harshness of the surroundings; the outside world arrives through the Ford T, Johnny Weissmuller, and the French novels they read. The volume closes with the author's notes on each story.
The edition is part of the Alfaguara Literaturas series.
For readers of Spanish-language fiction, especially those interested in Argentine narrative.
Héctor Tizón was an Argentine writer and diplomat. He lived and worked from the ancestral home of his parents in Yala, a small rural town some 40 miles (64 km) north of San Salvador de Jujuy. Tizón served as the cultural attache in the Argentine Embassy in Mexico, and was forced into exile to Cercedilla in the Sierra de Guadarrama, west of Madrid, shortly after the military coup of 24 March 1976. Upon his return to Argentina, he settled back in Jujuy where he died on 30 July 2012. He won the Diamond Konex Award in 2004 as one of the most preeminent writers in Argentina.
