"Imagining Argentina is an award-winning novel by Lawrence Thornton, about the Dirty War in 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'disappeared', as her husband Carlos, a theater director, searches frantically for her and others through \"imagining\" their fates in prisons and cells.In 2003, the novel was adapted to film by Christopher Hampton."@en . "813/.54 19" . . . "240"^^ . . . "Imagining Argentina"@en . . . "PS3570.H6678 I4 1987" . "15316974" . "ISBN 0-385-24027-9" .