Sultry Moon
By Argentine writer Mempo GiardinelliTranslated by Patricia J. Duncan
ISBN: 0-935480-92-7
Price: $14.00
Pages: 128
Topping Argentina's bestseller list for twenty-seven weeks, winner of Mexico's National Book Award and translated into eight languages, Sultry Moon is a gripping novel reminiscent of both Crime and Punishment as well as Lolita. This fast-paces thriller takes off with he introduction of its protagonist who has just returned to his hometown in Argentina from studies in France. With the prospect of a brilliant career ahead of him, he is welcomed back with open arms. However, within the span of a few hours during a dinner party on a torrid evening, this unsuspected over-achiever becomes a ruthless, violent aggressor living out the paranoid psychology of a criminal on the run.