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"Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, Gómez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare that not even his nightly forays into bars and bathhouses in search of anonymous sex can relieve. Things get even more complicated when he takes…

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2 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 2019
    Open Letter · 220 pages · 9781940953892
  • Other · Spanish · 2008
    Planeta · 273 pages · 9789504918479
Argentina, fictionFiction, generalGay menFictionCloseted gaysDisappeared personsNineteen seventy-seven, A.DHistory