Translation Rights TQE / Money For Ghosts

The core of this novel is a story of mad love, a love that drags two marginal characters from Buenos Aires to the most novelistic experiences halfway across the world. Their story sparks the imagination of an old writer who has grown bored of life, and it encourages him to reinvent himself. His story will germinate, as a seed carried by the wind, into the relationship of a young couple taking its first steps into love. “Stories are not made up but rather inherited,” is what Edgardo Cozarinsky wrote in his first novel. In Dinero para fantasmas, stories open up successively, much in the way of Chinese boxes that contain one another. They are inherited by characters whose brief encounters draw the plot of the novel, somewhere between experienced and imagined love, between the desire which has remained alive for years and that which explodes in the people who are starting to test out life.

Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1939. In 1974 he moved to Paris and, since 1988, he lives between Buenos Aires and the French capital. He is a film director as well as a writer, and has directed numerous movies such as La Guerre d’un seul homme, Le violon de Rothschild, Fantômes de Tanger, and Ronda nocturna, all of which blur the limits between fiction and documentary and which have won awards and been paid homage in the Musee du Jeu de Paume in Paris and in the most prestigious international film libraries. Among his most outstanding literary works are the essays Museo del chisme (Gossip Museum, 2005), El pase del testigo (The Next Witness, 2001); the books of short stories Vudú urbano (Urban Voodoo, 1985) – with  a prologue by Susan Sontag and Guillermo Cabrera Infante –, La novia de Odessa (Odessa’s Girlfriend, 2001), and Tres Fronteras (Three Frontiers, 2006); and the novels El rufián moldavo (The Moldavian Scoundrel, 2004) and Maniobras nocturnas (Night Maneuvers, 2007).