The End of the Story
Liliana Heker
Translator Andrea Labinger
Publisher: Biblioasis
Summary
First appearance of The End of the Story in EnglishThe End of the Story is the key novel of the Dirty War. It is impossible to understand the events of the Dirty War without reading this book.Argentina’s Dirty War (1976-1983) is well-known to English-speaking audiences through films such as The Official Story and the Oscar-winning box-office hit The Secret in Their Eyes (Best Foreign Film, 2009). Blurb from Alberto Manguel (see below) and possible blurb from Horatio Castellanos MoyaThe second of Heker's novels to appear in English (the first, The Stolen Party and Other Stories, was published by Coach House in 1994 and translated by Alberto Manguel).In Spanish, The End of the Story was published in 1996 by Alfaguara, the dominant publishing house in the Spanish-speaking worldOriginal sparked a widespread public controversy in Argentina about how the years of the Dirty War should be rememberedOriginal is currently available in paperback in Alfaguara’s Punto de Lectura series (arguably the most widely distributed literary paperbacks in Spanish)