77 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781940953892)

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, G mez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of G mez's favorite students, is taken away in a classroom raid, G mez realizes that no one is safe anymore, and that asking too many questions can have lethal consequences. His life gradually becomes a paranoid, insomniac nightmare that not even his nightly forays into bars and bathhouses in search of anonymous sex can relieve. Things get even more complicated when he takes in two dissidents, putting his life at risk--especially since he's been having an affair with a homophobic, sadistic cop with ties to the military government. Told mostly in flashbacks thirty years later, 77 is rich in descriptive detail, dream sequences, and even elements of the occult, which build into a haunting novel about absence and the clash between morality and survival when living under a dictatorship.

Author: Guillermo Saccomanno
ISBN-10: 1940953898
ISBN-13: 9781940953892
Publisher: Open Letter
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2019
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 12/26/2018
Library Journal 03/01/2019 pg. 119
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2019