New York: Dutton, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by this award-winning Argentinian writer, a "mystery which blends the metaphysical and the mundane." Nicolas Almanza, a young small-town photographer, gets his first professional assignment, to photograph stills of the provincial capital of La Plata. On the train there, he meets an elderly man and his two daughters, and things get complicated. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. 169 pp. ISBN: 0-52524803X.