My Tender Matador

Pedro Lemebel

Translated by Katherine Silver first published 2003 Grove Press, 2004 hardcover 170 pages

"It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the wealthy and listens to boleros to drown out the gunshots and rioting in the streets. Along comes Carlos, a young, handsome man who befriends the aging homosexual and uses his house to store mysteri...

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Katherine Silver 2 printings we hold · 2004–2005 · Grove Press

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My Tender Matador edition · 2025 · Pushkin Press, Limited · 176 pages · 9781805332336
My Tender Matador edition · 2007 · Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802199485
My Tender Matador paperback · 2005 · Grove Press · 176 pages · 9780802141873
My tender matador hardcover · 2004 · Grove Press · 170 pages

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