Call Me Magdalena |
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| Author:
| Steimberg, Alicia |
| Translator:
| Labinger, Andrea G. |
| Series title: | Latin American Women Writers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-9282-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $25.30 |
Book Description:
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Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind Control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is quite what it seems, least of all Magdalena herself, who while recounting the weekend's events, changes her name as often as she changes her mind. nbsp; Within the taut framework of a murder mystery, Alicia Steimberg...
More DescriptionErotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind Control class envisioned when they gathered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires for a relaxing weekend. But here nothing is quite what it seems, least of all Magdalena herself, who while recounting the weekend's events, changes her name as often as she changes her mind.
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Within the taut framework of a murder mystery, Alicia Steimberg weaves a tale far more concerned with who-is-it than with whodunit. In what is probably the celebrated author's most interesting and complex novel, Magdalena conducts us through her tortuous childhood as an Argentine Jew and through her doubts about morality and mortality, the existence of God, and the amorphous nature of identity. Animated by Steimberg's lively dialogue and wit, this eccentric tour of some of the more pressing questions about gender, identity, and existence itself is finally as intriguing and suspenseful as the mysteries large and small, otherworldly and mundane, that it invites us to contemplate.