Confession [Paperback]

Brutal and overwhelming,Confessionwrestles with the legacy of Argentinas past and the passions of one young girl.

When Mirta L?pez looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed older boy on his way back from school. Its 1941 in provincial Argentina, and the sight has awakened in her the first uncertain, unnerving vibrations of desire. Naturally, she confesses. But she cannot stop herself.

Over thirty years later, in 1977, that same young man is a general, leading the ruling military junta of a country, and a cell of young revolutionaries plot an audacious attack on him, and the regime.

Writing from the present into the past, Mart?n Kohan maps the contours of Argentinas 20th century, but finds his centre in one woman  devout, headstrong, lit up with ideas of right and wrong  not the grand historical figures of her lifetimes omnipresent, brutalizing history. And yet, there is great beauty in?Confession, its decades and landscapes, and the legacy of love and guilt, pieties religious and civic, that play out in one family and against the background of dictatorships traumas.

Mart?n Kohan?was born in Buenos Aires in 1967.?He teaches Literary Theory at the University of Buenos Aires. To date, he has published several books of essays and short stories, and seven novels. His work has appeared with publishers of great prestige in Europe such as Anagrama (Spain), Einaudi (Italy), Seuil (France) and Suhrkamp (Germany). The 25th Premio Herralde de Novela awarded to?Ciencias Morales (Moral Sciences) consecrated him as one of the most important authors in todays international literary panorama.

Daniel Hahnis a writer, editor and translator. His work has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. His translations for Charco Press span Brazil'