by Marcelo Birmajer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467201130
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«Historias de hombres casados» is a collection of short stories by Marcelo Birmajer, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The stories focus on married men and on love, marriage, parenthood, death, desire, deceit or the fear of loneliness. With humour and irony, Birmajer sets stories in bars, hotels, planes and cash machines and builds a period portrait of the misfortunes born of the search for happiness.
Contemporary Argentine fiction. Edition with illustrated dust jacket, published in 2004. ISBN-10: 84-672-0113-4.
For readers of short fiction and ironic fiction about marriage and routine, with a look at masculine contradictions.
Marcelo Birmajer is an Argentine Jewish author. He is the grandson of Romanian, Polish, Lithuanian and Syrian immigrants. He is best known for writing the screenplay of the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually revolves around the Porteño neighbourhood of Once and its colorful inhabitants. Most stories feature Jewish characters, and he frequently uses for them the names Javier, or Mordejai/Mordechai depending on the character's level of religious observance. He also addresses Jewish issues such as synagogue attendance, Bar Mitzvahs, and the ever present alternative to immigrate to Israel.
