{"product_id":"77-paperback-1","title":"77 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuillermo Saccomanno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAndrea Labinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, G mez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of G mez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, G mez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare that not even his nightly forays into bars and bathhouses in search of anonymous sex can relieve. Things get even more complicated when he takes in two dissidents, putting his life at risk--especially since he's been having an affair with a homophobic, sadistic cop with ties to the military government. Told mostly in flashbacks thirty years later, \u003ci\u003e77\u003c\/i\u003e is rich in descriptive detail, dream sequences, and even elements of the occult, which build into a haunting novel about absence and the clash between morality and survival when living under a dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuillermo Saccomanno\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including \u003ci\u003eEl buen dolor\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and \u003ci\u003e77\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGesell Dome\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize. (Both available from Open Letter.) He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for \u003ci\u003eEl oficinista\u003c\/i\u003e and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for \u003ci\u003eUn maestro\u003c\/i\u003e. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea G. Labinger\u003c\/b\u003e is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana María Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165175320711,"sku":"9781940953892","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/41c39d934861ecbb5383bdd1d58e5cfc.webp?v=1733311563","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/77-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}