Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize.
An assistant in Buenos Aires' most prestigious boarding school, Maria Teresa's job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Teresa takes to spying on theman activity she gets surprising pleasure from. In this confined society all appears fair and liberal, but within there is brutal repression and the teachers draw up lists of candidates for torture. School for Patriots powerfully shows how in a dictatorship the political and the sexual interact.
Martin Kohan lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Review
As in his fine boxing novel, Seconds Out, Kohan narrates this story in a detached and punctilious style ... his depiction of the psychological effects of tyranny is chillingly convincing. -Financial Times
Synopsis
An Argentinean boarding school is as brutal and perverse as its countrys military dictatorship
About the Author
Martin Kohan was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires where he lives . He is the author of an essay on Walter Benjamin.
Seconds Out was the first of his novels to be translated into English. School for Patriots>, won the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize in Spain.