The Tenth Circle (Discoveries,) - Softcover

Mempo Giardinelli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891270109 ISBN 13: 9781891270109

Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Tenth Circle Fiction. This novella, similar in content to its Argentine author's prize-winning SULTRY MOON (also available from SPD) details a crime spree, including multiple murders, undertaken by 'respectable' business man Alfredo Romero and his adulterous lover Griselda...It is narrated by Alfredo after he's been apprehended, [with] narrative intensity, velocity, and matter-of-fact black humor. A very accom... Full description

About this title

Product Description:

A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realise they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its most basic form. At turns poetic, erotic, horrific, and even tongue-in-cheek, the book tells of a spiralling descent that becomes a brutal reality of no escape.

About the Author:

<strong>Mempo Giardinelli</strong> is an award-winning Argentine author and journalist. He has been a visiting professor or writer-in-residence at numerous universities in the U.S. and Europe. He is the author of several novels, including <em>Sultry Moon</em>, as well as short stories. <br><br><strong>Andrea G. Labinger</strong> is an emerita professor of Spanish at the University of La Verne, where she is a former founding director of the university's honors programme. She lives in the Los Angeles area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1891270109
• ISBN 13: 9781891270109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93