El desierto invisible

Set on Argentina's nineteenth-century frontier with its Indigenous peoples, the novel follows nameless figures: a one-armed Indian in an iron glove, a colonel and his wife, a white captive, a widow holding her husband's severed head, and a governor who recalls Rosas. With humour it imagines lives that the official story of civilisation against barbarism leaves out.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

376 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Argentina, 19th century

First published

2023 by Clarín/Alfaguara

Author's age

70 when first published

ISBN

9789870755500 (original)