The Islands

By Carlos Gamerro

Book Overview

"Exhilarating, inventive, and consistently absorbing."--The Guardian

Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe F lix is summoned to the twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerl n and charged with finding witnesses to a very public crime. Refusal is not an option. After a decade immersed in virtual realities, trying to forget the Falklands War, F lix has to confront the city.

Detective novel, cyber-thriller, inner-city road trip, and war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating, and dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains raw.

Carlos Gamerro, born in 1962, is one of the most highly regarded contemporary Argentine writers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908276088
• ISBN13: 9781908276087
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"