Summary
"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 (1909-1994) 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.
Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's Cervantes Prize in 1980.
