Washing dishes in hotel paradise - Eduardo Belgrano Rawson

A sailor makes his way along the Uruguayan coast of the Ro de la Plata. Reaching the radio station Pacheco, a stopping point for all mariners wishing to contact the mainland, he places a call to his wife. When a male voice answers, and the line falls dead immediately afterwards, the seaman begins to wonder whether it is the technology or his wife’s fidelity that he must doubt. Fusing wit, tenderness, disillusionment, and passion, the vignettes in this volume are united by Belgrano’s idiosyncratic and award-winning narrative style. Engaging with Argentinian popular culture and history, the author presents a cast of characters variously engaged in rehabilitation, subterfuge, affairs of the heart, and even, unwittingly, cinematography.