SULTRY MOON

by Mempo Giardinelli ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1998

This marvelous novel, its Argentine author's fourth, won the 1983 Mexican National Book Award. It's a tense, resonant story of a 30ish intellectual, Ramiro Bernadez, whose hopeful return home is destroyed by his impulsive commission of rape, then murder, and his inability--implicitly compared to that of Argentina's ruling elite--to take responsibility for, or even acknowledge, his actions. A beautifully controlled small masterpiece, filled with echoes of both Camus's L'Etranger and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Pub Date: April 1, 1998

ISBN: 0935480927

Page Count: 116

Publisher: Latin American Literary Review

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1998

Categories: FICTION