Buenos Aires Noir (Akashic Noir)

Buenos Aires Noir (Akashic Noir)

Ernesto Mallo (Editor)
$15.95
Publication Date: November 7th, 2017
Publisher:
Akashic Books, Ltd.
ISBN:
9781617755224
Pages:
288

Description

The Noir Series dives deeper into Latin America, into a city with a long history, both glorious and sinister.

“Crimes of passion, politics, and perversity pervade the 14 selections in Akashic’s noir volume devoted to Buenos Aires, where the grim past of the dirty war and present tumult provide a rich backdrop . . . Literary visitors may want to seek out longer looks after these brief exposures to the city’s many layers.” —Publishers Weekly

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the geographic area of the book. With Buenos Aires Noir, the Noir Series dives deeper into Latin America, into a city with a long history, both glorious and disturbing.

Brand-new stories by: Inés Garland, Inés Fernández Moreno, Ariel Magnus, Alejandro Parisi, Pablo De Santis, Verónica Abdala, Alejandro Soifer, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Ernesto Mallo, Enzo Maqueira, Elsa Osorio, Leandro Ávalos Blacha, Claudia Piñeiro, and María Inés Krimer.

About the Author

ERNESTO MALLO is an Argentinian journalist, screenwriter, playwright, and novelist, and also the organizer of BAN! Buenos Aires Negra, the international noir literary festival. He has published ten prize-winning novels that have been translated into seventeen different languages. He lives and works in Buenos Aires and Barcelona. He is the editor of Buenos Aires Noir.

Praise for Buenos Aires Noir (Akashic Noir)

As editor Mallo says, Buenos Aires is a city ‘in love with its own disorder.’ These 14 sly tales amply attest to that affection. Murder most foul, the star attraction of almost any good noir, makes several appearances here . . . Mallo’s well-balanced collection gives readers a glimpse of both the geography of Buenos Aires and its heart.
— Kirkus Reviews

A good introduction is Buenos Aires Noir, in the ever-reliable Akashic Noir series, edited by the novelist Ernesto Mallo. Mallo himself is a playwright, script writer and crime novelist with the Superintendent Lascano series, a couple of which have been translated into English.


— CrimeReads, included in a roundup of Crime Novels of Buenos Aires

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