What the Night Tells the Day

A Novel

Hector Bianciotti

Translated by Linda Coverdale

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A "lyrical and unforgettable" (Washington Post Book World) memoir of growing up gay in Perón's Argentina.
A poetic journey and an intimate exploration of the nature of memory and the way desire works its way into our lives. . . One cannot but feel thankful that finally Bianciotti—one of the most pleasurable and stylized prose writers writing fiction in any language—is available in English. 
— San Francisco Bay Guardian

Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English, is the fictionalized story of Bianciotti's youth among poor immigrant peasants in rural Argentina during the late years of the Perón regime, and a moving and sensitive portrayal of a boy's discovery of his own homosexuality.

Hector Bianciotti was born in 1930 in Argentina.  He left for Europe in 1955 and has lived in Paris since 1961.  The author of many books, including the prize-winning Sans la Miséricorde du Christ, he is currently the literary correspondent for Le Monde.
Fiction
Spring 1996
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 272 pages
978-1-56584-241-0

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