La travesía (Spanish Edition)

Set between contemporary New York and Buenos Aires during the dictatorship, an unnamed female anthropologist retrieves past loves, present eroticism, extravagant characters, and evocations of the dead. A narrative thread is established by letters of sexual adventures written to titillate a former manipulative husband. The art world and bohemian characters people the New York scenes, filtered through the protagonist's eyes. Authoritarianism and patriarchy constitute the web from which she seeks to extricate herself. [GK]