Memorias del río inmóvil

Rita and Juan were political militants in the 1970s and survived the dirty war; now they want only to leave that past behind and live ordinary lives. Around them move other figures: a beggar who watches the river every afternoon at the port of Olivos, a consultant growing rich on money of unknown origin, a young gay man who begins to suspect his own mother. When a comrade the couple took for one of the disappeared reappears, the life they have built starts to give way, and a sordid story comes to light that strips away false identities and asks what the survivors had to give up to fit into the present.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

292 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina

First published

2001 by Clarín/Alfaguara

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789507821967 (original)