A sailor makes his way along the Uruguayan coast of the R�o de la Plata. Reaching the radio station Pacheco, a stopping point for all mariners wishing to contact the mainland, he places a call to his wife. When a male voice answers, and the line falls dead immediately afterwards, the seaman begins to wonder whether it is the technology or his wife’s fidelity that he must doubt. Fusing wit, tenderness, disillusionment, and passion, the vignettes in this volume are united by Belgrano’s idiosyncratic and award-winning narrative style. Engaging with Argentinian popular culture and history, the author presents a cast of characters variously engaged in rehabilitation, subterfuge, affairs of the heart, and even, unwittingly, cinematography.

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Eduardo Belgrano Rawson is among the leading lights of contemporary Latin American fiction. Born in Argentina, he worked as a journalist and writer of screenplays before embarking on a career as a novelist. His work has been compared to that of Ernest Hemingway and Michael Ondaatje.

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