Emilio Renzi ha llegado al campus de una prestigiosa universidad de New Jersey para impartir un seminario sobre los años argentinos de W. H. Hudson. Fue invitado por la directora del departamento, la bella y belicosa Ida Brown.

Pequeños incidentes y extraños equívocos culminan con la trágica muerte de la profesora Brown en un inexplicable accidente. Que incluye un detalle inquietante: Ida tiene la mano quemada, y eso parece conectarla con una serie de atentados contra figuras del mundo académico. Cuando finalmente se descubre al responsable de los atentados, el asombro es mayúsculo. Se trata de Thomas Munk, pro­fesor de matemáticas en Berkeley y autor de un radical Manifiesto sobre el capitalismo tecnológico. Renzi recons­truye el pasado de Munk y viaja a California para entrevistarlo en la cárcel. Intuye que el destino de Ida está en juego y que nada volverá a ser como antes.

Esta novela cuenta una historia real, un caso de la cronica policial de 1965: el asalto a un banco en la provincia de Buenos Aires, en el que estaban involucrados politicos y policias. Pero en la huida, los maleantes decidieron traicionar a sus socios y escapar con todo el dinero. El autor, que tuvo acceso a materiales confidenciales, relata el dramatico asedio policial a los atracadores, que antes que entregarse decidiran quemar el dinero. Una historia de amor, traiciones y heroismo con personajes inolvidables.

Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, "The Absent City" takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights into Argentina's history and contemporary condition in this conceptually daring and entertaining work. The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she - the machine - is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives - all part of a detective story, all part of something more - multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself. The second of Piglia's novels to be translated by Duke University Press - the first was "Artifical Respiration" - this book continues the author's quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that characterise dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the author.

Love and betrayal complicate a robbery gone wrong in this edgy true-crime novel based on a 1965 Argentine bank robbery. There's the drama of the botched raid itself, followed by a blowout afterparty, an attempted double-crossing of the corrupt local authorities, and a final shootout where, as a last act of rebellion, the robbers burn all the loot. This gritty tale has been adapted for a major motion picture by renowned Argentine director Marcelo Pinyero.

Cuando, en 2016, el archivo de Ricardo Piglia fue enviado a la Universidad de Princeton, se encontraron allí las cintas que contenían la grabación del seminario sobre las novelas cortas de Juan Carlos Onetti que dictó en la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1995. Piglia solicitó su transcripción y dedicó los últimos meses de su vida a la revisión de este material inédito, que se reúne por primera vez en Teoría de la prosa.
El programa de trabajo de estas nueve clases aborda problemáticas diversas, y la invitación a recorrerlo se torna irresistible; así la enuncia el propio autor: “Por un lado, analizaremos las relaciones del secreto y la narración; por otro lado, vamos a rastrear esta cuestión en una selección de textos de Onetti y, finalmente, discutiremos estos problemas en función de la forma nouvelle ”.
La mirada aguda y la argumentación certera de Ricardo Piglia, uno de los mayores referentes de la literatura latinoamericana, sumadas a su claridad expositiva y al tono fluido propio de la oralidad, hacen de este libro una obra imperdible.

"Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel García Márquez."— Kirkus Reviews
A passionate political and psychological thriller set in a remote Argentinean Pampas town, Target in the Night is an intense and tragic family history reminiscent of King Lear , in which the madness of the detective is integral to solving crimes. Target in the Night , a masterpiece, won every major literary prize in the Spanish language in 2011.
Ricardo Piglia (b. 1941), widely considered the greatest living Argentine novelist, has taught for decades in American universities, including most recently at Princeton.

Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights into Argentina’s history and contemporary condition in this conceptually daring and entertaining work.
The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she—the machine—is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives—all part of a detective story, all part of something more—multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself.
The second of Piglia’s novels to be translated by Duke University Press—the first was Artifical Respiration —this book continues the author’s quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that characterize dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the author.