by Horacio Vázquez Rial · Verticales · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492421909
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«Historia del Triste» is the crime novel by Horacio Vázquez Rial, published by Verticales in 2009, in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
Cristóbal Artola, el Triste, is an orphan raised in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. After training in the clandestine world of illegal betting, he enters politics through the repression of the Argentine dictatorship of the seventies. As an anonymous executioner, alongside his partner Chaves, he witnesses the violence that shook Argentina, narrated with the detached gaze of one of its hitmen and the daily terror of the unofficial part of the regime.
Novel shortlisted for the Premio Nadal 1986, as stated on the cover. Includes an epilogue by Osvaldo Gallone. Published in the Literaria collection.
For readers of crime fiction and historical narrative focused on Argentine political violence.
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