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Call Me Magdalena (Paperback)
Alicia Steimberg; Translated by Andrea G Labinger
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Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder,
even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind
Control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside
Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is quite what
it seems, least of all Magdalena herself, who while recounting the
weekend's events, changes her name as often as she changes her
mind. Within the taut framework of a murder mystery, Alicia
Steimberg weaves a tale far more concerned with who-is-it than with
whodunit. In what is probably the celebrated author's most
interesting and complex novel, Magdalena conducts us through her
tortuous childhood as an Argentine Jew and through her doubts about
morality and mortality, the existence of God, and the amorphous
nature of identity. Animated by Steimberg's lively dialogue and
wit, this eccentric tour of some of the more pressing questions
about gender, identity, and existence itself is finally as
intriguing and suspenseful as the mysteries large and small,
otherworldly and mundane, that it invites us to contemplate.
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