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.”
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