This entire novel consists of a discussion between two friends—one who just returned from Europe, the other a young accountant—about a grand birthday party neither one was able to attend. This doesn't stop them from swapping stories and hypotheses, which balloon into a riveting depiction of the complexities of life, especially at the dawn of Argentina's Dirty War.
This entire novel consists of a discussion between two friends—one who just returned from Europe, the other a young accountant—about a grand birthday party neither one was able to attend. This doesn't stop them from swapping stories and hypotheses, which balloon into a riveting depiction of the complexities of life, especially at the dawn of Argentina's Dirty War.
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Saer, Juan José; Dolph, Steve

First edition, Rochester, New York, 2010

United States, United States of America

New York, 2014

3, 20140915

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<div><P>"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's <i>The Sixty-Five Years of Washington</i> captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."&#151;<I>New York Times</i></p><P>It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician&#151;wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white&#151;is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into &Aacute;ngel Leto, a relative newcomer to Santa Fe who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.</p><P>One day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday&#151;a party neither of them attended.</p><P>Saer's <i>The Sixty-Five Years of Washington</i> is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.</p><P><B>Juan Jos&#233; Saer</b> was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including <I>Scars</I> and <I>La Grande</I>), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for <I>The Event.</I></p><P><B>Steve Dolph</b> is the founder of <I>Calque</I>, a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan Jos&#233; Saer's <I>Scars</I> was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.</p></div>

"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."— New York Times
It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into Ángel Leto, a relative newcomer to Santa Fe who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.
One day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday—a party neither of them attended.
Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.
Juan José Saer was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including Scars and La Grande ), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for The Event.
Steve Dolph is the founder of Calque , a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer's Scars was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.

Two friends muse and hypothesize about the grand birthday they missed in the years before Argentina's Dirty War

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