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| subject = Argentina's [[Dirty War]] |
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| publisher = [[Doubleday]] |
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| pub_date = 1987 |
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| genre = [[Drama]] |
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Revision as of 01:00, 16 September 2009
Author | Lawrence Thornton |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Argentina's Dirty War |
Genre | Drama |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1987 |
Pages | 240 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 0385240279 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
OCLC | 15316974 |
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.