Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
Jan 15, 2013
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
ISBN-10
1846687438
ISBN-13
9781846687433
Description
Winner of the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize.
An assistant in Buenos Aires' most prestigious boarding school, Maria Teresa's job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them—an activity she gets surprising pleasure from. In this confined society all appears fair and liberal, but within there is brutal repression and the teachers draw up lists of candidates for torture. School for Patriots powerfully shows how in a dictatorship the political and the sexual interact.
Martin Kohan lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
An assistant in Buenos Aires' most prestigious boarding school, Maria Teresa's job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on them—an activity she gets surprising pleasure from. In this confined society all appears fair and liberal, but within there is brutal repression and the teachers draw up lists of candidates for torture. School for Patriots powerfully shows how in a dictatorship the political and the sexual interact.
Martin Kohan lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.