Overview
Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize Recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award ""Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories unnerve us while building to the unexpected and explosive finale.""-El Mundo Like True Detective through the lenses of William Faulkner and John Dos Passos, Gesell Dome is a mosaic of misery, a page-turner that will keep you enthralled right until its shocking end. Opening with reports of a child abuse scandal at an elementary school, then weaving its way through dozens of sordid storylines and characters-including various murders, corrupt politicians and real-estate moguls, and the Nazi past of the city-Gesell Dome chronicles the dark underbelly of a popular resort town tensely awaiting the return of the tourist season. Two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize, Guillermo Saccomanno is Argentina's foremost noir writer, crafting incisive, unflinching books that reveal the inequities of contemporary life.
Full Product Details
Author: Guillermo Saccomanno ,
Andrea G Labinger, PH.D., Harvard University
Publisher: Open Letter
Imprint: Open Letter
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9781940953380
ISBN 10: 1940953383
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 25 August 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel. Â Europa Press Like Twin Peaks reimagined by Roberto Bolano, Gesell Dome is a teeming microcosm in which voices combine into a rich, engrossing symphony of human depravity. Â Publishers Weekly Cynical and funny: a yarn worthy of a place alongside Cortazar and Donoso. Â Kirkus Reviews If you enjoy lyrical depictions of iniquity and a sprinkling of philosophy mixed in with your noir fiction, then you'll like Gesell Dome. Â SFGate By using a narrator who is not shocked, who does not look away from anything, Saccomanno shines a gruesome, graphic light on what people are willing to ignore so that their comfort remains intact. Â Kim Fay, Los Angeles Review of Books Newspaper articles, ads, and more traditionally narrated segments make up the book, sprawling along without chapter breaks. The effect is like being tied to a stake on Main Street while the personifications of sin parade by, occasionally smacking you as they go. Â Eric Shonkwiler, The Coil
Author Information
Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashell Hammett Prize. He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner. Andrea G. Labinger is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana Mara Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.
