Found in a local charity shop.

Synopsis
Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government.

I was looking forward to this as it is my first novel by Toibin. It was written in a very simple style about a young man who emerges from the repressive period of the Junta in Argentina at the same time as he comes out as a gay man. I found his change from a sympathetic quiet guy to an unsympathetic promiscuous go-getter well drawn but it also changed me from liking to disliking the book. In the end I missed the point if there was one.