Buenos Aires Noir

Short stories featuring ';crimes of passion, politics, and perversity,' set in this tumultuous South American city (Publishers Weekly). It is a city of contradictions and chaos; crude, transitory violence, the lack of law and order, the ubiquitously hurled insult, the thunderous boom of traffic, and honking curses. Its inhabitants love the city and hate itfrom the multimillionaires of Puerto Madero to the workers in the ';misery cities,' the poorest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Often the mansions are separated from the shanties by nothing but a single street or railroad track. These short stories of crime and corruption from a lineup of excellent authors highlights the relations between the social and economic classestheir tensions, their cruelties, and also their lovein a city that has reinvented itself many times over. Brand-new stories by Ines Garland, Ines Fernndez Moreno, Ariel Magnus, Alejandro Parisi, Pablo De Santis, Veronica Abdala, Alejandro Soifer, Gabriela Cabezon Cmara, Ernesto Mallo, Enzo Maqueira, Elsa Osorio, Leandro valos Blacha, Claudia Pieiro, and Mara Ines Krimer. ';As editor Mallo says, Buenos Aires is a city ';in love with its own disorder'... . Murder most foul, the star attraction of almost any good noir, makes several appearances here... .Mallo's well-balanced collection gives readers a glimpse of both the geography of Buenos Aires and its heart.' Kirkus Reviews