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Published by Anagrama · Society and social sciences · ISBN 9788433946720

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The second novel by the Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez, published in 2004 by Emecé, after the country's economic crisis. Matías Kovac is sixteen and lives in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in a broken family: a father who left, a mother knocked out by sleeping pills and a sister who hides her face under a balaclava. His brother Cristian leaves for Barcelona and leaves him his diaries, full of references to Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Kurt Cobain or Suede, which Matías tries to decode as a way out.

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For readers who don't mind a dark novel about youth in poverty, with drugs, crime and the weight of rock culture and television. Worth knowing: the protagonist carries the memory of his father's abuse.

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