Tropical Night Falling
Book description
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish
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Manuel Puig's Tropical Night Falling is not like any other novel you've ever read. Set in Rio de Janeiro, the novel is told mostly through conversations between two sisters in their 80s who have left their native Argentina to live in Brazil. The sisters maintain a lively gossip about their neighbors, and the reader fits together the clues in their dialogue to construct the plot.
The novel's story is not just about the sisters, but also about the characters on their block, whose lives interweave in fascinating and unpredictable ways.
The author, Manuel Puig, is best known for writing the…
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