Zama H. M. Long 'Tagging the Stealer')

'Tagging the Stealer')

hard to resist

orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humdrum existence as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore’s Occam Aerospace Research Center

casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman

She works at her grandmothers' bookshop

Zama H. M. Long 'Tagging the Stealer')By: Antonio Di Benedetto Published by New York Review of Books, 2016 08 23 An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don