Malvinas Requiem (Book)
Rodolfo Fogwill
Release Date: 01 Jul 2007
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781852429652
ISBN-10: 1852429658
It s early June 1982 and winter in the Falkland Islands: 24 young soldiers deserters from the Argentine army spend the last weeks of the conflict hiding underground in a cave. Inside their refuge they listen to the radio, stockpile supplies and exchange stories; outside, under cover of night, they trade with the Argentine Quartermaster and with the British. Looking out over the bleak landscape, after weeks of grey skies and horizontal snow, one of them remarks that you d have to be English to want this . But the rationale of their own side is just as puzzling. The pichis , as they call themselves short for pichiciegos, tiny blind armadillos that live underground in northern Argentina are a temporary tribe of survivors from different parts of the country (just as the English all seem to them to be either Scottish, Welsh or Gurkhas) with the bad luck to have been born in the early 1960s. Written before the surrender and recently reissued in Argentina, Fogwill s Malvinas Requiem is shocking, subtle and superbly written."
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Reviews of Malvinas Requiem:
'Some of the world's saddest and funniest books are about war. Malvinas Requiem, written before the Argentine surrender in the Falklands in 1982, is one of these . .. Rodolfo Fogwill ... may be cynical about why people do what they do, but he still wants a better world for them to do it in.' - the Times
[A] fabulous, satirical, subterranean story... Had Borges written All Quiet on the Western Front, it might have come out something like this... intensely true and quite unbelievable... [a] brilliant, bravura novella.' - Spectator
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