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Published by Anagrama · Arts · ISBN 9788433998446

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The second book by the Argentine writer and art critic María Gainza, published in 2014. It has eleven pieces that can be read as chapters of a novel or as separate stories: each starts from a painting or a painter, from El Greco to Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau or Courbet, and ties it to the life of the narrator, her upper-class family and Buenos Aires.

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For readers who like art and autobiographical fiction, and enjoy books that are hard to classify, between novel, short story and essay. The underlying themes are family, illness, loss and the passing of time.
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It came out first in Argentina, then in Chile, and in 2017 in Spain with Anagrama, and has been translated into more than fifteen languages.

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