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title: "The Absent City"
author: "Ricardo Piglia"
genre: "Science Fiction, Magical Realism / Genre Blend / incorporating elements of Detective / and Historical"
category: "Fiction"
themes: "The nature and corruption of political power;Memory and the process of historical recollection (especially post-dictatorship);The search for identity and meaning in a changing/unreliable reality;The tension between the personal and the political"
isbn_13: "9780822325864"
isbn_10: "0822325861"
asin: "0822325861"
bnid: "1100311796"
amazon_link: "https://www.amazon.com/Absent-City-Ricardo-Piglia/dp/0822325861"
bookshop_link: "https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-absent-city-ricardo-piglia/10852702?aid=12938&ean=9780822325864&listref=staff-picks-william-recommends"
bn_link: "https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-absent-city-ricardo-piglia/1100311796"
source_url: "https://marciebooks.co/?search=The%20Absent%20City"
data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
---

# The Absent City

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