An Open Secret

<strong>Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's <em>An Open Secret</em> is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.</strong>

Dario Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe, a child at the time of the murder, returns to the town where Dario met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses and evasion ensue - desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community, even Fefe himself, is afraid.

Translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett, Carlos Gamerro's <em>An Open Secret</em> is published by Pushkin Press.

'Carlos Gamerro's <em>An Open Secret</em> ... has the makings of a classic'
<em>- The Economist</em>

'<em>An Open Secret</em> is paced like a taut thriller that ... ultimately, rewards the reader ... Gamerro creates a vivid sense of how gossip can poison a small town'
<em>- The Independent</em>

'<em>An Open Secret</em> digs away at the shallow graves of recent decades to find the pettiness, narrow-minds, and rivalries that motivated it'
- Ben Bollig, <em>The Guardian</em>

<strong>Carlos Gamerro</strong> (b. 1962) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published the novels <em>Las Islas</em>, <em>El sueno del senor juez</em>, <em>El secreto y las voces</em>, <em>La aventura de los bustos de Eva</em> and the book of short stories <em>El libro de los afectos raros</em> as well as numerous works of literary criticism. He also wrote the film script for the movie <em>Tres de corazones</em> (2007).