![]() De Robertis is unflinching in her depictions of the torments inflicted by the junta, but she comforts us, too, with beautiful sustained metaphors of water and light, connection and renewal. Fatherhood and the deep bonds between children and parents are explored with a rare gravity in this serious, impassioned novel. Perla's tentative connection to her disturbing "guest" (as she thinks of him) grows into something that causes her to confront her suspicions about her father's role in the junta. ![]() He is just one of the 30,000 disappeared, in his case thrown from a plane to drown in the sea. Carolina De Robertis, a writer of Uruguayan origins, is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango, Perla, and the international bestseller The Invisible. This naked wretch was a victim of the "Process", the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with. The stinking, liquefying living corpse that materialises in the sitting room of heroine Perla's Buenos Aires flat actually seems credible, when brought into being by the sheer force of De Robertis's viscerally affecting language. ![]() I n keeping with her South American roots, De Robertis steps confidently into the unsettling realms of magical realism. ![]()
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