Shadows

"In a "neofantastical" novel that both follows and leads the grand tradition of Latin American literature, the highly acclaimed best-selling Argentine author Osvaldo Soriano dazzles us, through humor and illusion, with the hilarity of modern angst and the inventiveness of the disenfranchised." "A brilliant but washed-up computer programmer walks off into the endless pampa - the vast expanse of the provincial Argentine countryside - after the train he is on breaks down in the middle of nowhere and is unlikely ever to be repaired. Heading for the next station in hopes of cashing in his ticket,…