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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Spoilt, resourceful and proud, Sofia is loved by all around her. All, that is, except her Irish mother Anna. When Sofia embarks on a passionate love affair, Anna is horrified and sends Sofia away to Europe, exiling her from her family and her lover.
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Description
'The Forget-Me-Not Sonata' is a sweeping story following the life of Audrey Garnet who grows up in the small Anglo-Argentine community where the gossiping ladies of the Hurlingham Club divulge and discuss the latest scandals over scones and tea.
5) Betty Boo
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Seemingly unconnected deaths lead to the darkest secrets of the Argentine establishment. It all begins in a luxurious gated community.
Author
Publisher
Granta
Pub. Date
2022
Description
His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast. Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him. For years, they have exploited his father's ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness....
7) Repentance
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Buenos Aires, 1981. Inspector Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force during the Dirty War exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive military regime: desperate people, angry people and - most of all - missing people. Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, favouring a steady job and domesticity with his wife Paula over the path taken by his hot-headed revolutionary brother, Jorge. But when Jorge is disappeared, Alzada...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Redolent with the atmosphere of 1950s Argentina and featuring portraits of real characters such as Eva and Juan Peron, Adolf Eichmann, and Otto Skorzeny, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-Semitism under the Perons.
Author
Publisher
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Benjamin Chaparro is a man haunted by his past. A retired detective, he remains obsessed with the decades-old case of the rape and murder of a young woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the details of the investigation, he is reacquainted with his similarly long, unrequited love for Irene Hornos, then just an intern, now a respected judge. Set in Buenos Aires in the 1970s.