Translation Rights TQE / The third morning

One night, Victor lies to his parents and leaves the house hoping to experience the Buenos Aires nightlife. It is an unexplored territory for him and his purpose is to stay out until dawn. After a few uncomfortable encounters and tense situations for an adolescent, he accepts a prostitute’s offer to have a drink with her in a dive full of drunkards, mostly sailors but also a few decrepit actors. The events, from that moment until dawn, will change Victor’s life, even though he is not aware of it yet. Only in the future will he be able to tie the ends that came loose that night. This will happen on two different nights and their following mornings which are still very far in time: One, when he is thirty and lives in Paris, still reminiscent of the events of May 1968, and he has become a flâneur of the city and perhaps of life itself. The second time will occur when he is in his sixties, back in Buenos Aires, and finds himself falling in love once again.

La tercera mañana is a game of mirrors, an exercise of symmetries and asymmetries, of identities and the confusion between biography and fiction, of questions and decisions that are sometimes postponed for nearly an entire existence.

Praise for his previous novel, Lejos de dónde:

“Cozarinsky succeeds in making Lejos de dónde more than a simple family story, but rather a novel that crosses over boundaries and through time in order to meld into the secrets of identity.” Qué Leer

“In this novel, Cozarinsky achieves a complex squaring of the circle: to meld past and present and make it one sequence. An exemplary form of concise writing.”

El Correo Español

“A passionate novel.” El Litoral

“Extraordinary.” Página/12

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).