This Never Happened
May 2026 · Schaffner Press
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In this autobiographical novel, a journalist witnesses the hot-off-the -presses editions of his own books thrown onto a bonfire of books. The date is March 24th, 1976, the day of the coup d'etat that led to the overthrow of the Isabel Peron presidency in Argentina and 18 years of terror known as "La Guerra sucia" or " The Dirty Wars" in which 30,000 plus are still unaccounted for. Fearful for his life and those of his wife and children, the narrator must find a way to navigate the highly volatile and murderous world under the boot of La Junta, in hopes of saving himself and his family; but first he has more important business to attend to– – his mistress, with whom he's been having a scorching love affair– – and finds himself grappling with several major dilemmas and very real dangers confronting him as he works his way out of this lethal maze.
In this autobiographical novel, a journalist witnesses the hot-off-the -presses editions of his own books thrown onto a bonfire of books. The date is March 24th, 1976, the day of the coup d'etat that led to the overthrow of the Isabel Peron presidency in Argentina and 18 years of terror known as ...
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Mempo Giardenelli is an Argentinian novelist and academic, author of numerous books, including novels, essays and short story collections. He is the winner of the Premio Nacional de Novela (Mexico) as well as the Premio Grandes Viajeros (Spain). He is the author of the bestselling novel, LUNA CALIENTE (Torrid Moon) that was the first novel by a non-Mexican author to receive the presigious Premio Nacional de Novela and which was adapted for a film in 1985. He is a regular contributor to Pagina/12 and founder of the literary review Puro Cuento. Mempo Giardenelli is an Argentinian novelist and academic, author of numerous books, including novels, essays and short story collections. He is the winner of the Premio Nacional de Novela (Mexico) as well as the Premio Grandes Viajeros (Spain). He is the author of the bestselling novel, LUNA CALIENTE (Torrid Moon) that was the first novel by a non-Mexican author to receive the presigious Premio Nacional de Novela and which was adapted for a film in 1985. He is a regular contributor to Pagina/12 and founder of the literary review Puro Cuento. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, Professor Emerita of Spanish at the University of Louisville, has translated fiction and non-fiction by authors from Latin America and Spain, and has published scholarly studies about their works. She received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in 2006 for the translation of Alberto Ruy Sá nchez' s novel Los jardines secretos de Mogador: Voces de tierra. Her latest translation, The Jacarandas Whisper (White Pine P, 2025), is a bilingual edition of poems by Alberto Ruy Sá nchez that received the 2025 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation. Mempo Giardinelli was born in Resistencia, capital of the Chaco province in Argentina, on August 2, 1947. He is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, essays, anthologies, and children' s fiction, and a journalist whose columns appear regularly in newspapers and magazines in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Chile, and other countries. During the military dictatorship, he lived in exile in Mexico City (1976-1984), where his first works of fiction were published. He has since returned to Buenos Aires where he continues as a journalist and editor.
Mempo Giardenelli is an Argentinian novelist and academic, author of numerous books, including novels, essays and short story collections. He is the winner of the Premio Nacional de Novela (Mexico) as well as the Premio Grandes Viajeros (Spain). He is the author of the bestselling novel, LUNA CAL...
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