An edition of My Tender Matador (2003)

My tender matador

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My tender matador
Pedro Lemebel, Pedro Lemebel
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An edition of My Tender Matador (2003)

My tender matador

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"It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets.

Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. Thus begins a friendship and a love that will have unexpected though vastly different consequences for both."

"My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at a historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the world and mind of Pinochet himself.

As Carlos and the Queen negotiate their unspoken complicity and mismatched affections to the beat of the bolero and the threat of repression, Pinochet contends with revolutionary upstarts, negative world opinion, fascistic reveries, terrifying nightmares, and an endlessly chattering wife who has more respect and affection for her hair stylist than for her husband."--Jacket.

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Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
170

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Cover of: My Tender Matador
My Tender Matador
2007, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: My Tender Matador
My Tender Matador: A Novel
February 10, 2005, Grove Press
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Cover of: My Tender Matador
My Tender Matador: A Novel
January 27, 2004, Grove Press
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Cover of: My tender matador
My tender matador
2004, Grove Press
in English
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My tender matador
2003, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Published in
New York, NY

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Library of Congress
PQ

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Pagination
170 p. ;
Number of pages
170

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL22577793M
ISBN 10
0802117686
Library Thing
929754
Goodreads
915479

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Work ID
OL2582293W

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Like drawing a sheer cloth over the past, a flaming curtain fluttering out the open window of that house in the spring of 1986.
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