My Tender Matador

by Pedro Lemebel · first published 2001

My Tender Matador (Spanish: Tengo miedo, torero, lit. 'I am afraid, bullfighter') is a 2001 novel by Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel. Set in Santiago during the second half of 1986, the novel is a love story between a poor travesti and a leftist Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front guerrilla who participates in the attempted assassination of military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Among the characters in the novel are Pinochet himself, his wife Lucía Hiriart and Gonzalo Cáceres, then Hiriart's stylist and later a show business personality. My Tender Matador is the fourth book and only novel by Lemebel.

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Original language:

Spanish

Reader rating:

★ 4.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

2001