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"A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple--a documentary filmmaker and a blogger--engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting...

The financial problems of a Jewish Community Center, in a small neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, are a nightmare for young Rabbi Aaron. Neither his industriousness nor optimism seem enough to repay the longstanding debt he owes. Threatened with the shutdown of his beloved Community Center, Rabbi Aaron embarks on a humorous and heartwarming journey to the Far East to attract donations.

A high-end 4x4 is parked on a street of a typical neighborhood in Buenos Aires. A man breaks into it to steal whatever he can find, but when he tries to get out, the doors and windows lock the 4x4 just like an armored bunker. The situation is distressing: he is trapped. Someone on the outside is in control of the vehicle, and they seem to have a plan.

After ex-juvenile-detainee Pagan Jones, part-time Hollywood starlet, part-time spy, returns from making a film in Berlin, she's called upon by the handsome secret agent Devin Black to head to Buenos Aires for an undercover mission. She's to star in a cheesy film with bad actors while trying to track down a Nazi war criminal who has ties to her mother.

"En el Buenos Aires nocturno, sórdido y vibrante de los años noventa del siglo pasado se mueven dos personajes: Facundo, un joven de belleza inalcanzable que se prostituye para sobrevivir y tiene miedo de dormir solo por las pesadillas que sufre, y Narval, un chico perseguido por seres oscuros y macabras alucinaciones. Un tercer personaje, la inestable Carolina, completa el trío, que se asoma al abismo de las drogas, la violencia, la destrucción...

Most evenings in Buenos Aires, 'Elvis' Gutiérrez is a star, his singing and stage presence bring back to life the King of Rock and Roll in all his glory. By day, though, Gutiérrez slaves away at a dead-end factory job and endures the scorn of his ex-wife. Only his young daughter, Lisa Marie, brings any joy outside of his Elvis tribute gigs. Feeling more connected to his stage persona than to the world around him, Gutiérrez retreats from reality...

22 deaths a day, 683 a month, over 8,000 a year, 100,000 over the last decade. In Argentina, traffic accidents are decimating those 35 and under. Festering beneath Argentina's crime-plagued, class-divided society is the quasi-lawless realm of motor vehicle accidents and their aftermath. Sosa is an ambulance-chasing lawyer. He's lost his license, so now he works the late-night streets of Buenos Aires, signing up injured clients for a predatory firm...

"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz-nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...