by Juan José Saer · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846686917
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«The Witness» is the novel by Argentine writer Juan José Saer, published by Serpent's Tail in paperback (167 pages, in English).
A ship's boy sets sail from sixteenth-century Spain to the New World; an inland expedition ends in disaster after an indigenous attack. The novel reflects on the link between the lived and the narrated and on the cultural identity of the outsider, with echoes of Melville and Conrad noted by critics.
«El entenado» was originally published in Spanish in 1983; this English translation, by Margaret Jull Costa, is from 2009.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction who appreciate discovery, cultural identity, and prose with a reflective undertone.
Juan José Saer was a major Argentine writer. For his novel The Event, he won the Premio Nadal in 1987. In 1990, he shared the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Las veredas de Saturno. In 2004, he received a Platinum Konex Award for his 1994–98 work.
