Winner of the 2008 Hammett Award
"77 is a taut historical thriller with noir overtones. . . . As his characters grapple with love, allegiance, and daily life under a dictatorship, every action is a form of resistance."—Foreword Reviews
"77 sings a dark song of one man’s struggle to stay human when the inhumane lurks on every corner and the day-to-day reality of his world is curdled by the struggle between unchecked power and subversive acts."—Ross Nervig, Southwest Review
"A great novel. . . . I am—as we all should be—grateful for 77 and all novels like it."—Patrick Nathan, Full Stop
"Like Twin Peaks reimagined by Roberto Bolaño, Gesell Dome is a teeming microcosm in which voices combine into a rich, engrossing symphony of human depravity."—Publishers Weekly
In prickly, energized language, Saccomanno . . . captures the fearfulness of those living under dictatorship."—Library Journal
"Cynical and funny: a yarn worthy of a place alongside Cortázar and Donoso."—Kirkus Reviews
"By using a narrator who is not shocked, who does not look away from anything, Saccomanno shines a gruesome, graphic light on what people are willing to ignore so that their comfort remains intact.”—Kim Fay, Los Angeles Review of Books
"77 is ostensibly a novel about Argentina’s Dirty War; it is also a book about reconciling inaction with survival."—World Literature Today
“77 is, among other things, a potent reminder of the gruesome paths of totalitarian dictators.”—Lew Whittington, New York Journal of Books
"A choral, savage, and ruthless work, considered to be the great Argentine social novel."—Europa Press
