Kiss of the Spider Woman

Author(s): Manuel Puig; T. Colchie (Translator)

Trans & Gender Diverse Fiction

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin, an articulate, fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause. Both are gradually transformed by their guarded but growing friendship and by Molina's obsession with the fantasy and romance of the movies.


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A heart rending tale of love, passion, politics and betrayal

Manuel Puig was born in 1932 in a small town in the Argentine pampas. He studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, and in 1956 won a scholarship from the Italian Institute in Buenos Aires and chose to pursue studies in film direction at the Cinecitta in Rome. There he worked in films until 1962, when he began to write his first novel. Exiled from Argentina, he settled in New York City in 1963. Puig's novels - Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, The Buenos Aires Affair, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages - have been translated into fourteen languages and secured his international reputation. He died in July 1990.

General Fields

  • : 9780099342007
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Arrow
  • : 0.202
  • : October 2006
  • : 196mm X 131mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 288
  • : 863
  • : English
  • : 9109
  • : Paperback
  • : Manuel Puig; T. Colchie (Translator)