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My Tender Matador
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It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely romantic, he listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots.
Then he meets Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysterious boxes and hold clandestine meetings. And as the relationship between these two very different men blossoms, they find themselves caught in a revolution that could doom them both.
By turns funny and profoundly moving, Pedro Lemebel's lyrical prose offers an intimate window into the mind of Pinochet himself as the world of Carlos and the Queen prepares to collide with the dictator's own in "a wonderful snapshot of this period of Chile's history . . . A touching tale of love and danger" (
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João Borges
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“lindo lindo lindo, uma das prosas mais bonitas que já li e uma das melhores representações de longing por amor não retribuído que já vi”
Lillian
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“Unfortunately this book has a really specific prose style that I don't like (excessive metaphors) and that made it hard for me to enjoy it sometimes. The actual content of the book I enjoyed a lot more; it's half a story of Chile under Pinochet's rule and half a love story / character study. Sometimes these two topics didn't blend together well and so the book felt kind of disjointed, like we were jumping from place to place.
It's absolutely worth a read for the main character alone, she really stole my heart. Also, I don't want to spoil anything but this book has such a good ending; it's bittersweet but surprisingly hopeful. A lot of gay love stories end very tragically so it was refreshing to see the queen get her happy (ish) ending :)”
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