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    Open Door

    By Iosi Havilio

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    When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible. This evocative book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnd Other Stories
    Release dateDec 20, 2011
    ISBN9781908276070
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    Open Door
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    Iosi Havilio

    Iosi Havilio (b. 1974 Buenos Aires) became a cult author in Argentina after his debut novel Open Door was highly praised by the outspoken and influential writer Rodolfo Fogwill and by influential Argentine critic, Beatriz Sarlo. Petite Fleur is his fifth novel.

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      An existential novel that has the air of a post-war nouveau roman. Many of the elements are here: an impersonal narrator, a focus on the surfaces of things, and dramatic events driven by oblique motivations while retaining plausibility. The combined influence of Camus and Dostoevsky is palpable.

      The novel is not a "coming of age" story, but it is suffused with the audacity and insolence of youth. The narrator is a young woman who leaves Buenos Aires to live in country near a psychiatric hospital, the "Open Door" of the title. There is some obscurity about the connections of the various characters to the hospital and its noninterventionist approach means that such a connection would be tenuous. Even so, there is a disquieting feeling throughout that madness, like the asylum, is just around the corner.