by Horacio Vázquez Rial · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401429811
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«Historia del Triste» is the novel by Argentine writer Horacio Vázquez Rial, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
An orphan raised in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Cristóbal Artola, el Triste, goes from illegal betting to anonymous executioner for the Argentine dictatorship of the seventies. Through his eyes, the novel portrays the junta's political violence, the disappearances, and the terror that marked Argentine society for over twenty years.
The work was a finalist for the 1986 Premio Nadal and belongs to the El Ave Fénix collection from Plaza & Janés.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Argentina's recent history and the political violence of the dictatorship.
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