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Country United States Subject Argentina's Dirty War Pages 240 pp Originally published 1987 Genre Drama | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1987 ISBN 0-385-24027-9 Publisher Doubleday | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adaptations Imagining Argentina (2003) Awards Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Similar Lawrence Thornton books, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winners, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imagining Argentina is an award-winning novel by American author Lawrence Thornton, about the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government abducted those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the "disappeared", as her husband Carlos, a theater director, searches frantically for her and others through "imagining" their fates in prisons and cells.
In 2003, the novel was adapted to film by British director Christopher Hampton.
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