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Haunting, paranoid story of a gay insomniac forced to make very uncomfortable choices to stay alive during the Argentine dictatorship.
About the author
Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize. (Both available from Open Letter.) He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner.
Andrea G. Labinger is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana María Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.
Foreword
•Send copies to the top 75 or so Open Letter bookstore accounts: City Lights, McNally Jackson, Elliot Bay, etc.
•Approximately 200 advance copies sent to primary publications. This list includes: New York Times, SF Chronicle, LA Times, n+1, New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bookforum, The Believer, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Rain Taxi, Time Out New York/Chicago, World Literature Today, Flavorwire, Washington Post, BOMB, Literary Review, Complete Review, Words Without Borders, B&N Review, Harper's, Shelf Awareness, Quarterly Conversation, Chicago Tribune, Typographical Era, Slate, Salon, etc. Also sent to the following trade publications: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal.
•Advance copies also sent to members of the NBCC Award Committee and the Best Translated Book Award Fiction Committee.
•Giveaway of 25 copies on Goodreads.
•Promote on Three Percent and on social media via Open Letter's FB & Twitter accounts (almost 7,000 likes on FB; over 13,100 followers on Twitter), and through the Press’s newsletter, which goes out to over 11,000 people on a biweekly basis.
•Ebook available and will be mentioned on all press release materials, Open Letter website, etc.
•Target noir readers and mystery-centric publications, especially those that we aren’t usually in contact with.
•Big push toward academics interested in LBGT issues, Latin American history, and living under a dictatorship.
