Sultry Moon (Discoveries)

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Summary: Passion is destructive
Review: From the very first scene, this book creates a mood of sensuality and destruction. Araceli is fascinating and deadly. Mempo G. has all the facets of a writer I like- sensuality, ability to create tension and make one think. Sultry Moon is a novel one will never forget for its enigmas- the fine line between reality and madness.

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Summary: one of the best writers ...
Review: I have read in the longest time . I was going to write that he is the best writer form argentina , but that statement does not do him justice . I too read this book in one sitting and since then giardinelli has become one of my favorite writers . I own every one of his books . The ending is surprising and also genius. Get this book you definitely will not regret it .

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Summary: Compulsively readable tale of crime and punishment
Review: I love short books that pack a wallop, pull you in and just refuse to let you go, demand that you read them at one sitting - I think of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder, "Night Flight" by Antione de Saint Exupery, and "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. I have now added "Sultry Moon" by the Argentine writer Mempo Giardinelli to this exclusive club. This is a gripping tale of one man's fascination with crime - a fascination which leads him to commit several crimes during three days under the hot "sultry moon" during December 1977, in the early days of the Argentine military dictatorship, which is a background to this story but not its central focus. Ramiro, the central figure of the story, is drawn into a vortex of crime, conscience and punishment as ineluctably as was Raskolnikov in Dostoyevksy's "Crime and Punishment". Looking for something a little bit off the beaten track to grab you one rainy (or even sunny) afternoon? Go read this extraodinary book. I think you may be repulsed but you will definitely be fascinated.

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Summary: Compulsively readable tale of crime and punishment
Review: I love short books that pack a wallop, pull you in and just refuse to let you go, demand that you read them at one sitting - I think of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder, "Night Flight" by Antione de Saint Exupery, and "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. I have now added "Sultry Moon" by the Argentine writer Mempo Giardinelli to this exclusive club. This is a gripping tale of one man's fascination with crime - a fascination which leads him to commit several crimes during three days under the hot "sultry moon" during December 1977, in the early days of the Argentine military dictatorship, which is a background to this story but not its central focus. Ramiro, the central figure of the story, is drawn into a vortex of crime, conscience and punishment as ineluctably as was Raskolnikov in Dostoyevksy's "Crime and Punishment". Looking for something a little bit off the beaten track to grab you one rainy (or even sunny) afternoon? Go read this extraodinary book. I think you may be repulsed but you will definitely be fascinated.

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Summary: Lust and death are a fatal duo
Review: In just over 100 pages the reader is taken to places so torrid it is hard to breathe. I have never experienced a character like Araceli-so wild and yet unfathonable in her awakened sexuality. Ramiro is a truly doomed man for starting the process and he brings on his ultimate madness. I have always liked south american writers- Garcia-marquez and others. If Mempo Giardinelli continues to write with the intensity he does in this book of passion gone awry he will get much recognition.