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Guillermo Saccomanno is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including El buen dolor, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and 77 and Gesell Dome, both of which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize. (Both available from Open Letter.) He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for El oficinista and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for Un maestro. Critics tend to compare his works to those of Balzac, Zola, Dos Passos, and Faulkner. Andrea G. Labinger is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana Mara Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.
Winner of the 2008 Hammett Award. A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel. --Europa Press 77 is a taut historical thriller with noir overtones. . . . As his characters grapple with love, allegiance, and daily life under a dictatorship, every action is a form of resistance. --Foreword Reviews 77 sings a dark song of one man's struggle to stay human when the inhumane lurks on every corner and the day-to-day reality of his world is curdled by the struggle between unchecked power and subversive acts. --Ross Nervig, Southwest Review Like Twin Peaks reimagined by Roberto Bola o, Gesell Dome is a teeming microcosm in which voices combine into a rich, engrossing symphony of human depravity. --Publishers Weekly Cynical and funny: a yarn worthy of a place alongside Cort zar and Donoso. --Kirkus Reviews By using a narrator who is not shocked, who does not look away from anything, Saccomanno shines a gruesome, graphic light on what people are willing to ignore so that their comfort remains intact. --Kim Fay, Los Angeles Review of Books
