Tropical Night Falling

by Manuel Puig

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At the heart of this story are two elderly Argentine sisters, Luci and Nidia, living in self-imposed exile in Rio. Together they share a life of gossip, but through their conversations the author reveals the violent lives of their neighbours. By the author of Kiss of the Spider Woman.

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Brutally charming story of two elderly sisters from Argentina that live in Rio and love to gossip. And talk about life. But then reality enters the picture and things get a bit more brutal. Great characters created from letters and conversation only! Very rewarding on many levels.
At the heart of this story are two elderly Argentine sisters, Luci and Nidia, living in self-imposed exile in Rio. Together they share a life of gossip, but through their conversations the author reveals the violent lives of their neighbours. By the author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman". [Book Depository]
En el crepúsculo de sus vidas, y en Río de Janeiro, dos hermanas evocan el pasado y departen acerca de los amores de una vecina más joven, que a través de ellas conocemos al trasluz o en filigrana. La indeclinable maestría de Puig para el diálogo coloquial y el mimetismo de los clisés expresivos de cada personaje se aúnan a su conocida y turbadora maestría para mostrar lo que hay de verdad humana profunda en el material con el que se construyen las novelas rosa. Aquí la visión última es a un tiempo más tierna y poética y más desolada que nunca: de lo que se nos habla es, a fin de cuentas, de la irredimible soledad del ser humano, encarado al decaimiento y la muerte, destino del que sólo momentáneamente le distraen los show more espejismos afectivos. Cae la noche tropical es una lectura conmovedora y apasionante y una muestra cabal y definitiva de la plenitud de recursos de uno de los principales narradores hispánicos. show less
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154 páginas
Publicado por Seix Barral, Barcelona, 1988
ISBN 13: 9788432205910

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Author Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas, Argentina on December 28, 1932. Betrayed by Rita Hayworth (1968) is an innovative novel narrating through a variety of techniques the story of a young Argentine boy who lives vicariously through the movies. Puig uses the phenomenon of compulsive movie-going as a symbol for alienation and escape from show more reality. Heartbreak Tango (1969) evokes the spiritual emptiness of the Argentine provincial life in the 1930s and the vulgarity of popular music and the soap opera. His best known work, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1979), was adapted as a film in 1985 and as a Broadway musical in 1993. He died of a heart attack on July 22, 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
Tropical Night Falling
Original title
Cae la noche tropical
Original publication date
1988
People/Characters
Lucie; Nidia; Silvia; Ronaldo
Important places
Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Original language
Spanish

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
863Literature & rhetoricSpanish LiteratureSpanish fiction
LCC
PQ7798.26 .U4 .C3413Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesSpanish literatureProvincial, local, colonial, etc.Spanish America
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