Author:Manuel Puig
Valentin and Molina seemingly share little other than a cell in this queer classic ahead of its time.
'Dazzling... a triumph' Observer
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their Buenos Aires prison cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause that makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love that makes all else endurable.
Though they seemingly share little other than a cell, the two form a bond so intimate - and a relationship so profoundly affecting - that only the other could understand.
'A visionary work that breathed life into certain dimensions of human possibility long before society at large was prepared to imagine them.' Carolina de Robertis, Los Angeles Review of Books
'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre'
—— Observer'Imagine a collision between Jonathan Swift at his most scatalogically-minded and J.R.R Tolkein on speed... This total mess of- I suppose- a novel, is the joyous outcome'
—— Daily Telegraph'Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own'
—— The Sunday Times'Pratchett is as funny as Wodehouse and as witty as Waugh'
—— Independent'Like Dickens, much of Pratchett's appeal lies in his humanism, both in a sentimental regard for his characters' good fortune, and in that his writing is generous-spirited and inclusive'
—— Guardian'This spinner of crazy science-fiction tales is a very sophisticated jester'
—— The Times
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