El canario

Javier Parra returns to Buenos Aires in the 1980s after two decades of wandering in Brazil and finds a changed city, its old bars turned into car parks. A job in a library brings him into contact with Maidana, known as the Canary, a dark man tormented by nightmares who, he later learns, was sent as a young conscript to the Navy Mechanics School and witnessed the horrors committed there. Digging into Maidana's past like a detective, Javier also reconstructs his own life and that of his friend Bishop, a renegade tied to anarchist flirtations, utopian communes and the hippie years. It is the story of a generation shaped by politics, repression and rock.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina, 1980s

First published

2016 by Clarín/Alfaguara

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789870735533 (original)