by Horacio Vazquez Rial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422624660
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«Historia del Triste» is the novel by Argentine writer Horacio Vázquez Rial, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback, in Spanish.
Cristóbal Artola, el Triste, an orphan from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, moves from illegal gambling to the repression of the Argentine dictatorship of the seventies. Alongside his partner Chaves, he acts as an anonymous hitman, witness to more than two decades of violence in Argentina, the terror of the military junta and its disappearances.
The novel was a finalist for the Premio Nadal in 1986 and was published in 1988. The action takes place in Buenos Aires over three decades.
A work for readers of twentieth-century Latin American fiction and of narrative on political repression in Argentina.
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