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Open Door

Open Door

Author(s): Iosi Havilio

Location(s): Argentina

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand and courted by an official investigating her partner’s disappearance. She might settle down, although a local girl is also irresistible …

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This evocative, atmospheric book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places, with unexpected people.

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