by Lawrence Thornton · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385475525
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«Naming the Spirits» is the magic realism novel by Lawrence Thornton, published by Doubleday in hardback (257 pages, in English).
After witnessing a massacre during the dirty war in Argentina, a nearly mute young woman crosses the pampa and arrives in Buenos Aires, where two doctors still grieving the disappearance of their daughter take her in. Within her she carries the names and stories of eleven executed people, whose ghostly voices weave the tale of a community marked by loss and seeking redemption.
«Naming the Spirits» is the sequel to «Imagining Argentina» (1987) by Lawrence Thornton. The work won the California Book Award (fiction category, 1995).
For readers of historical fiction and magic realism, with a special interest in the period of the dirty war in Argentina.
