by Manuel Puig · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432230042
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«Boquitas Pintadas» is the novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig, published by Seix Barral in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a small town in the Argentine pampas, it narrates the intertwined lives and thwarted loves of several characters. With letters, reports and shifts in style, Manuel Puig portrays desire, frustration, loneliness and the social conventions of a provincial community, parodying the romance novel.
It belongs to the Biblioteca de Bolsillo collection from Seix Barral. The novel was originally published in 1969.
A work for readers of Latin American classics and twentieth-century narrative that experiments with documents, letters and multiple voices.
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
