Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearabl...
Hailed by The New York Times as âan Argentinian tour de force.â
Manuel Puigâs masterful and ironic âdetective novelâ concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour...When Ramirez, an Argentinian exile and invalid in his seventies, who is confined to a wheelchair and unable to feel emotions, hires Larry, a young, down-on-his-luck American, a curious, multi-layered relationship develops...
In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband''s fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s convalescing in a hos...
Learning that he is dying of tuberculosis, self-styles ladies' man Juan Carlos is doted upon by the women in his life including his mother, sister, and two girlfriends, who fail to see that their own lives are crumbling in their adoration for Juan. R...