The End of the Story is a shocking study of the pyschology of torture, and a tragic portrait of Argentina's Dirty War. But, Diana wonders, is that necessarily a virtue? Gripping, intelligent, and intricately structured, Liliana Heker's novel of an unstable revolutionary pasionaria has inflamed readers across Latin America. Leonora was born to drink life down to the bottom of the glass. She begins to write the story of their friendship, but certain memories, details, and whispered allegations about Leonora's fate consistently intrude. A universal and indispensable writer." - Alberto Manguel When Diana Glass witnesses Leonora's abduction from a street in Buenos Aires, she despairs that her friend has joined the ranks of los desaparaecidos, the missing ones. her fiction chronicles the small tragedies that take place within the vast tragedy of our history. "Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Gustave Flaubert and Marcel Proust. 'Extraordinary' Newsday 'Brilliant' New Yorker 'Breathtakingly elegant' Details 'Beautifully written' Marie Claire 'Astonishing' Elle Lydia Davis is the author of Collected Stories, one novel and six short story collections, most recently Can't and Won't. With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction Back in print at last, this is Lydia Davis's first - and so far only - novel. He turned twenty-three while I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was anymore.' Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises her memories of a love affair into a novel. 'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with such a young man. The first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.
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