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Imagining Argentina
AuthorLawrence Thornton
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectArgentina's Dirty War
GenreDrama
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1987
Pages240 pp
ISBNISBN 0385240279 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
OCLC15316974

Imagining Argentina is an award-winning novel by Lawrence Thornton, about the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting 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 theatre director, searches frantically for her and others through "imagining" their fates in prisons and cells.

In 2003, the novel was adapted to film by Christopher Hampton.