Feminism books set in Argentina (4)


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Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro EN

Rating: 4 (25 votes)
Description:
In a single day, a journey across Buenos Aires reveals a daughter to her mother, a mother to herself, and the oppressive weight of received ideas to women connected by a fleeting encounter, twenty years before.

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Imminence by Mariana Dimópulos EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would. A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel. Taking place over the course of an evening, Mariana Dímopulos's mesmerising novella shifts seamlessly between the present and the past. In this dreamlike space, made from overlapping v... continue

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Bad Girls : A Novel by Camila Sosa Villada EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Description:
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Córdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds. When a cry comes from the dark, their leader, the 178-year-old Auntie Encarna, wades into the brambles to investigate and discovers a baby half dead from the cold. She quickly rallies the pack to save him, and they adopt the child into their fascinating surrogate family as they have so many other outcasts, including Camila. Sh... continue

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Pájaros en la boca by Samanta Schweblin ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
本短篇小说集是阿根廷新生代作家萨曼塔·施维伯林的成名作,2008年获得美洲之家文学奖.小说集收录有吃鸟的女孩在荒原上以头撞地等十四个短篇作品.