by Horacio Vázquez Rial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423315390
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«Historia del Triste» is the novel by Horacio Vázquez Rial, published by Destino in paperback (214 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Cristóbal Artola, the Triste, a man raised on the outskirts of Buenos Aires who moves between illegal gambling and violence. Set in Argentina during the dictatorship of the seventies, it portrays the daily terror and political repression of a society in decay through the detached gaze of a hitman.
Finalist for the Premio Nadal 1986, it belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection (volume 604) and to Horacio Vázquez Rial's Argentine cycle, along with La libertad de Italia and Territorios vigilados.
For readers of contemporary Argentine fiction and historical fiction about the political violence of the seventies.
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