Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize
Recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award
"Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories unnerve us while building to the unexpected and explosive finale."―El Mundo
Like True Detective through the lenses of William Faulkner and John Dos Passos, Gesell Dome is a mosaic of misery, a page-turner that will keep you enthralled right until its shocking end.
Opening with reports of a child abuse scandal at an elementary school, then weaving its way through dozens of sordid storylines and characters―including various murders, corrupt politicians and real-estate moguls, and the Nazi past of the city―Gesell Dome chronicles the dark underbelly of a popular resort town tensely awaiting the return of the tourist season.
Two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize, Guillermo Saccomanno is Argentina's foremost noir writer, crafting incisive, unflinching books that reveal the inequities of contemporary life.
Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize. He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro.
Andrea G. Labinger 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.

Gesell Dome

Literature & Fiction

SACCOMANNO, GUILLERMO

Literary

Open Letter

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, 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 Gómez’s favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez 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, 77 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.

To what depths is a man willing to go to hold on to a dream? The Clerk tells a story that happened yesterday, but still hasn't happened, and yet is happening now. A story we didn't even notice because we're too tied up in our jobs, salaries, appearances. This novel embraces an anti-utopia, a world of Ballard but also of Dosteyevsky.

The Clerk

ATINOIR

El oficinista

Genre Fiction

Seix-Barral

El Buen Dolor (Spanish Edition)

Emecé Editores

El terror patrulla las calles. Pelos quemados y sapos muertos intimidan un edificio. Un vecino desaparece. La represión acorrala. Astrólogos. videntes. profecías y maleficios. El ocultismo impera sobre la razón aniquilada.Un estudiante secundario chupado en una clase sobre el Facundo. Hijos de gorilas en la lucha armada peronista. Un montonero. su compañera embarazada y su amante envueltas en una relación lésbica. Es el invierno del 77. El momento más cruel de la dictadura. El profesor Gómez. homosexual. cabecita negra. simpatizante del peronismo. no puede refugiarse en la literatura. tampoco huir de su pasado ni del presente que socava sus certezas.Al acostarse con un policía. el profesor busca información sobre su alumno secuestrado. El bombardeo del 55 y sus consecuencias reverberan en una novela desesperada sobre el miedo y la complicidad civil. pero también sobre padres e hijos. un conflicto más político que generacional atravesado por la contradicción civilización/barbarie.En la línea de La lengua del malón (2003) y El amor argentino (2004). Guillermo Saccomanno escribió una novela lunática y macabra sobre la cotidianidad bajo el terror. una historia exasperada. que fascina y espanta en su desborde.

Planeta

CAMARA GESELL (Spanish Edition)

Bajo Bandera (Biblioteca del Sur) (Spanish Edition)

Un maestro

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