**A major new novel from the writer Roberto BolaΓ±o called "one of the best living Latin American writers"** Alan Pauls, one of Latin American literature's rising stars, combines the intimate and the political in a novel that, although it is set in Argentina in the 1970s and '80s, will bring to
A history of money: a novel: novel
β Scribed by Pauls, Alan
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 140 KB
- Edition
- 3
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
β¦ Subjects
A Novel
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