The National Telepathy

In September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to businessman Amado Dam, intended for Argentina's first Ethnographic Theme Park. Unexpected among the human cargo is an artefact harbouring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret: the ability to create erotically explosive telepathic connections between people. What ensues is a raucous satire of men's fear of women's bodies, of the illusion of logic in the structures of so-called civilisation, and the way class and race obscure identities when the observer is a man with power.
In The National Telepathy, Roque Larraquy, one of the most original voices in contemporary Argentinian literature, brings us a literary high-wire act, an over-the-top comic grotesque about atrocity. This shocking, bizarre, funny, imaginative novel lays all-too-bare the secret longings and not-so-secret machinations of a social class that will stop at nothing in order to stay on top.

Info autore

Roque Larraquy (Buenos Aires, 1975) is the author of the novels La comemadre (2011), nominated for the USA National Book Awards (2018), the National Translation Book Award (2018) and the Dublin Literary Award (2020); Informe sobre ectoplasma animal (2014), a book illustrated by visual artist Diego Ontivero; and The National Telepathy, chosen as one the best ten books in Spanish of 2020 by The New York Times, and so far translated into Portuguese, English and French. Until 2022 Larraquy was the inaugural director of the BA in Creative Writing at the Universidad Nacional de Las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roque Larraquy
• Con la collaborazione di: Wynne Frank (Traduzione)
• Editore: BookSource
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.02.2025
• EAN: 9781913867904
• ISBN: 978-1-913867-90-4
• Pagine: 161
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Fantasy, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Argentina, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Magical Realism, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Social issues, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Social classes, FICTION / World Literature / Argentina