School For Patriots

Martin Kohan was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, where he now lives. He is a novelist and writer of essays including one on Walter Benjamin. He teaches in Patagonia at the University of Trelew. A previous novel, Seconds Out [9781846686375], was published by Serpent's Tail in 2010.School for Patriots is translated by Nick Caistor

A new generation of Argentinian writers, Martin Kohan and Rodrigo Fresan in the forefront, are showing that they are the worthy successors of Borges, Sabato and Bioy Casares Le Devoir As in his fine boxing novel, Seconds Out, Kohan narrates this story in a detached and punctilious style ... his depiction of the psychological effects of tyranny is chillingly convincing. -- David Evans FT Uneasy reading with a creepy atmosphere throughout. -- Alastair Mabbott Herald An eloquent reminder that freedom cannot ever be taken for granted. Morning Star A brilliant and chilling study of authoritarianism, repression and surveillance from this Argentinean master of microscopic observation New Internationalist