LET THE WIND SPEAK

Sinopsis de LET THE WIND SPEAK

"The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus."-"The Sunday Telegraph" Medina lives across the river from Santa Maria, a town he is not allowed to enter and therefore wishes to destroy. "Let the Wind Speak" sees Juan Carlos Onetti coming to terms with his exclusion from the Santa Marias of his childhood, his first sexual conquests, his first cigarettes, and his first double whiskeys. A lover's bitter lament. Juan Carlos Onetti (19091994) was born in Uruguay. After being imprisoned under the Argentinian military dictatorship, he was exiled to Spain. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963.