<DIV><p><B>Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's <I>An Open Secret</I> is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.</B></p><p>Dario Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends and neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe, a child at the time of the murder, returns to the town where Dario met his fate and attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. Lies, excuses and evasion ensue - desperate attempts to deny the guilty secret of which the whole community, even Fefe himself, is afraid.</p><p>Translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett, Carlos Gamerro's <I>An Open Secret</I> is published by Pushkin Press.</p><p>'Carlos Gamerro's <I>An Open Secret</I> ? has the makings of a classic'<BR> <I>— The Economist</I></p><p>'<I>An Open Secret</I> is paced like a taut thriller that ... ultimately, rewards the reader ... Gamerro creates a vivid sense of how gossip can poison a small town'<BR> <I>— The Independent</I></p><p>'<I>An Open Secret</I> digs away at the shallow graves of recent decades to find the pettiness, narrow-minds, and rivalries that motivated it'<BR>— Ben Bollig, <I>The Guardian</I><p><p><B>Carlos Gamerro</B> (b. 1962) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has published the novels <I>Las Islas</I>, <I>El sueno del senor juez</I>, <I>El secreto y las voces</I>, <I>La aventura de los bustos de Eva</I> and the book of short stories <I>El libro de los afectos raros</I> as well as numerous works of literary criticism. He also wrote the film script for the movie <I>Tres de corazones</I> (2007).</p></DIV>