Confession
Martín Kohan's novel about an Argentine woman's life in the shadow of the military junta, translated by Daniel Hahn for Charco Press in 2023.
Confession is a novel by Martín Kohan, an Argentine academic, essayist and novelist born in 1967 who teaches literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro says it follows one woman’s life from before the dictatorship, when she is in love with a young man she calls Rafael, to old age, when she and her grandchild confess things to each other over a card game. Daniel Hahn translated it, and Charco Press published it in 2023.
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Claudia Piñeiro
In the book, there are no stereotypes. Nobody is good all the time, nobody is bad all the time.
Interview · March 2025
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