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Death as a side effect / Ana María Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
- Title
- Death as a side effect / Ana María Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
- Author
- Shua, Ana María, 1951-
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ7798.29.H8 M9413 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Labinger, Andrea G.
- Description
- 164 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Ernesto, a man in a dystopic future Argentina, struggles to save his dying father from falling victim to the diabolical health-care system, only to learn that everyone is a patient.
- "In Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shua's brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated "convalescent" homes, never to return. Abandoned by his mistress, suffocated by his father, and estranged from his demented mother and ineffectual sister, Ernesto seeks his vanished lover. Hoping to save his dying father from the ministrations of a diabolical health-care system, he discovers that, ultimately, everyone is a patient, and the instruments wielded by the impersonal medical corps cut to the very heart of the social fabric. The world of this novel, with its closed districts, unsafe travel, ubiquitous security cameras, and widespread artificiality and uncertainty, is as familiar as it is strange -- and as instructive, in its harrowing way, as it is deeply entertaining. The Spanish edition has been selected by the Congreso de la Lengua Española as one of the one hundred best Latin American novels published in the last twenty-five years."--Publisher
- Series Statement
- Latin American women writers
- Uniform Title
- Muerte como efecto secundario. English
- Latin American women writers
- Alternative Title
- Muerte como efecto secundario.
- Subject
- Argentina > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Dystopias
- Science fiction
- Dystopias.
- Note
- Translation of: La muerte como efecto secundario.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780803228078 (alk. paper)
- 0803228074 (alk. paper)
- 9780803229891 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0803229895 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010011416
- OCLC
- 555650112
- SCSB-12593053
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library