In Death as a Side Effect, Ana Maria Shua s brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated convalescent homes, never to return. Abandoned by his mistress, suffocated by his father, and estranged from his demented mother and ineffectual sister, Ernesto seeks his vanished lover. Hoping to save his dying father from the ministrations...
In Death as a Side Effect, Ana Maria Shua s brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc mar...
Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana Maria Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely celebrated throughout Latin America, frames her complex drama in deceptively simple, straightforward prose. The story takes place at a fat farm called The Reeds, a nightmare world that might not exist but certainly could. The last resort of the overweight wealthy (or sponsored), The Reeds subjects its campers to extreme measures particularly the regimented system of...
Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana Maria Shua, a work of fiction l...
