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My Tender Matador : A Novel by Pedro Lemebel (2005, Trade Paperback)

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My Tender Matador, Paperback by Lemebel, Pedro; Silver, Katherine (TRN), ISBN 0802141870, ISBN-13 9780802141873, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An effeminate homosexual known as the Queen of the Corner falls in love with a young straight man who is using his house to hold clandestine meetings and to store mysterious boxes, unaware that he and his friends are plotting the assassination of Pinochet, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1986 Chile. Reprint.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802141870

ISBN-139780802141873

eBay Product ID (ePID)43428305

Product Key Features

Book TitleMy Tender Matador : a Novel

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHispanic & Latino, Literary, Political, Romance / General

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorPedro Lemebel

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight7.1 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisCentered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at an historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in a fantastic and unexpected way.