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Author Lemebel, Pedro, author.

Title My Tender Matador / by Pedro Lemebel; translated by Katherine Silver
Published New York : Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated , [2005]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (86 pages)
Summary Centered around the 1986 attempt on the life of Augusto Pinochet, an event that changed Chile forever, My Tender Matador is one of the most explosive, controversial, and popular novels to have been published in that country in decades. It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago, and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods works the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic who embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. My Tender Matador is an extraordinary novel of revolution and forbidden love, and a stirring portrait of Chile at an historical crossroads. By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in a fantastic and unexpected way
Related To Adapted as motion picture (work): Tengo miedo torero (Motion picture). My tender matador.
Notes Print version record
Subject Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto -- Fiction
SUBJECT Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto fast
Subject Gender-nonconforming people -- Chile -- Fiction
Guerrillas -- Chile -- Fiction
Transgender people -- Fiction
Gender-nonconforming people
Guerrillas
Transgender people
Travesti
SUBJECT Chile -- History -- 1973-1988 -- Fiction
Santiago (Chile) -- Fiction
Subject Chile
Chile -- Santiago
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Political fiction
LGBTQ+ fiction
Political fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Silver, Katherine, translator.
ISBN 9780802199485
0802199488
Other Titles Tengo miedo torero. English