Bad Times in Buenos Aires by Miranda France

Bad Times in Buenos Aires by Miranda France

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This is a portrait of Buenos Aires and its people. The author describes the arrogance, the fixation with Europe and the moodiness of the city's inhabitants, as well as "bronca", the simmering rage that is a staple feature of life in the Argentine capital.

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Bad Times in Buenos Aires by Miranda France

In 1993 Miranda France moved to South America, drawn to Buenos Aires as the intellectual hub of the continent, with its wealth of writers and its romantic, passionate and tragic history. She found it was all these things, but it was also a terrible place to live.
Miranda France was born in 1966 and was brought up in East Anglia and Sussex. She read Spainsh and Latin American Studies at Edinburgh University, which included a year in Madrid. In the early 1990s she lived in Brazil and Edinburgh and then Buenos Aires, and in 1996 she won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for a piece about her time in Buenos Aires. Her first book, Bad Times in Buenos Aires, was published in 1998. She lives with her husband and young son in
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ISBN 13 9780297819660
ISBN 10 0297819666
Title Bad Times in Buenos Aires
Author Miranda France
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1998-02-23
Number of pages 240
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