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Magic realism is over, magic capitalism is up. For fans of Woody Allen and Michael Chabon. This is an utterly comic novel, that introduces the reader to a miraculous world of Chinese piracy, to Chinatown in Buenos Aires, and one of the funniest romantic comedies of its time. The whole town is looking for a mysterious incendiary called "el Fosforito" (the little match), who is said to always escape the scenery of his crime on bicycle - after all, he is Chinese. When Li is caught on the following incident, he takes a hostage: Ramiro, the narrator of this novel. He carries him off to Buenos Aires Chinatown, and the two st
Magic realism is over, magic capitalism is up. For fans of Woody Allen and Michael Chabon. This is an utterly comic novel, that introduces the reader to a miraculous world of Chinese piracy, to Chinatown in Buenos Aires, and one of the funniest romantic comedies of its time. The whole town is looking for a mysterious incendiary called "el Fosforito" (the little match), who is said to always escape the scenery of his crime on bicycle - after all, he is Chinese. When Li is caught on the following incident, he takes a hostage: Ramiro, the narrator of this novel. He carries him off to Buenos Aires Chinatown, and the two start to become friends. Like a queer version of the Stockholm-syndrome, Ramiro is more and more enchanted by his kidnappers and his surrounding, where he does not understand a word, but is having the greatest sex of his life. Everything is put upside down in this world: When his kidnapper asks him to take part in a big robbery - though he feels no criminal energy whatsoever -, when his love-mate wants to have a child with him and when Li admits to everything having been a mistake, when he finds out that Li is not even able to ride a bike and that the jewish conspiration against the world is in fact a Chinese one - he finally realizes that his life as a hostage has only been a short dream.
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Manufacturer: Grupo Editorial Norma
Release date: 1 August 2007
ISBN-10 : 9584503790 |
ISBN-13: 9789584503794
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