In this Book
- Golpes bajos / Low Blows: Instantáneas / Snapshots
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children—a gallery of characters from a broad spectrum of contemporary Argentine society. She portrays a world of violence, corruption, love, and betrayal. The brevity of the pieces suggests a breathlessness and ephemeral quality, the fast-paced rhythm of the present. Yet within these small moments flicker the larger forces that shape ordinary lives. Civil wars are fought, shady deals are made, unwanted children are born. And in Borinsky's ironic but life-affirming prose, human foibles are exposed.
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Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xix
- La mujer invisible /The Invisible Woman
- pp. 95-138
- Rincón de los profetas /Prophet’s Corner
- pp. 139-160
- Locas / Fruitcakes
- pp. 187-193
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299216030
Related ISBN(s)
9780299216009
MARC Record
OCLC
844345278
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No