Winner of the 2013 Dashiell Hammett Prize
Recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award
"Through a skillful weaving of characters and plotlines, coming together like a completed puzzle, Saccomanno has crafted a monumental novel where individual stories unnerve us while building to the unexpected and explosive finale."—
El Mundo
Like
True Detective
through the lenses of William Faulkner and John Dos Passos,
Gesell Dome
is a mosaic of misery, a page-turner that will keep you enthralled right until its shocking end.
Opening with reports of a child abuse scandal at an elementary school, then weaving its way through dozens of sordid storylines and characters—including various murders, corrupt politicians and real-estate moguls, and the Nazi past of the city—
chronicles the dark underbelly of a popular resort town tensely awaiting the return of the tourist season.
Two-time winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize, Guillermo Saccomanno is Argentina's foremost noir writer, crafting incisive, unflinching books that reveal the inequities of contemporary life.
Guillermo Saccomanno
is the author of numerous novels and story collections, including
El buen dolor
, winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, and
77
and
, both of which won the Dashiell Hammett Prize. He also received Seix Barral's Premio Biblioteca Breve de Novela for
El oficinista
and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for nonfiction for
Un maestro
.
Andrea G. Labinger
is the translator of more than a dozen works from the Spanish, including books by Ana María Shua, Liliana Heker, Luisa Valenzuela, and Alicia Steimberg, among others.