I'm reading 'The Story of the Night' by Colm Toibin. It's the story of a man living in Buenos Aires during the Malivinas/Falklands War. It is an interesting study of an outsider - the man's father is Argentinian, his mother British. Living in London - a city full of outsiders - young people away from their families, people from abroad in a strange land this book is an interesting view of someone who is an outsider and yet a part of what is going on around him.
I also find it fascinating as an impression of what it might be like to live in a dictatorship and the mass emotions that can be so easily generated. Also, how most people shut their eyes and don't speak about things that are happening. Anyone else read this book?
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