Paperback. Pub Date :2008-3-1 Pages: 311 Publisher: Economic Times A daring and deeply moving novel set in Argentina in the time ofthe Generals - a time when the streets are empty at night. andpeople have trained themselves not to see . Richard Garay lives withhis mother. hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Stifledby his job. Richard is willing to take chances. both sexually andprofessionally. But Argentina is changing. and as his country edgestoward peace. Richard tentatively begins a love affair. The resultis a powerful. brave. and poignant novel of sex. death. and thediffculties of connecting ones inner life with the outsideworld.