A rare view of Buenos Aires, from an insider's perspective. Having read a number of books on Buenos Aires, it seems that many authors only think of La Recoleta and Palermo as the only interesting places in Buenos Aires. Mr. Letemendia shows his readers the beaty and complexities of a great city. A great read.

Once again, Mr. Letemendia produces a powerful book which immediately pulls the reader in. The photographs are outstanding! They represent not only the beauty of the city, but also a feeling for how people live in the city. In addition to being an exceptional photographer, Mr. Letemendia is also a talented writer. His portrayal of the city's history and development give the reader an understanding of and appreciation for the complexity of Buenos Aires. I have never been to Buenos Aires yet now I feel I know it. The book is a great enticement to visit Buenos Aires. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!

If you like - or think you might like - Buenos Aires, then this is a book worth having. As opposed to the typical great picture approach that makes every place look like paradise, the author's photographs reflect the city as it really is, balancing the typical beautiful views with others that depict every day life and even less pleasant ones that also form part of every city.

At the same time, the author explains in very ammenable text, how and why Buenos Aires got to be what it is, thoroughly analyzing in each chapter a different component of the city's life.

This beautifully assembled combination of text and pictures conveys a very truthfull and wholesome idea of Buenos Aires.

Worth buying and keeping!

This pictorial review of Buenos Aires is a stunning display of photos of the city, its homes and its people. Coupled with a descriptive narrative, the photographs, all in color, trace the history of the city and describe modern day Buenos Aires. It is awesome to see the turn of the century architecture of the various buildings and at the same time to be allowed into the private homes of the city's residents. As an American visitor to Bs.As., I found that this book allowed me to see areas that otherwise would be unavailable to view. In later chapters of the book, the writer and photographer take the reader to the city's suburbs and then on to the world famous Argentine estancias (ranches).I would recommend this book to those who have traveled to the city who now wish to be reminded of its beauty as well as to the Argentines who may now live outside the country yet long for a reminder of what awaits their return. For those who have yet to visit Bs. As., this book is a fine substitute.

I found this book by chance on my last trip to NY.

I am an argentinian living in Buenos Aires, and I love my city. I think the book shows it in a wonderful way, through the text and pictures, which I found really beautiful.

It's good value for money too.

As an argentinian expatriate, this book is a wonderful reminder of my beloved Buenos Aires. But if you were not born in Argentina, you will not find only a turistic guide, a political essay or a historical vision of the city, but all that and more.

The description of the society is really accurate, and it is made with the objective point of view of a foreigner. And the research about the History of the city is precise as well. As an architect, I find the photographs excellent, and they show the reality and the contrasts of this wonderful city.

So, if you are planning a trip to Buenos Aires or just want to know more about the city, this book will give you an excellent vision of what you will find there.

...Reid Andrews tells it like it is in this well-detailed and articulate account as to what really happened (and is happening) to portenos de color in Buenos Aires.

Not only has Argentina whitened its population through immigration, they have also whitened and whitewashed their history, denying ANY black presence in Argentina even today. Reid Andrews sets the record straight. The story of the Afro-Argentines is told in meticulous detail and a straightforward writing style that gets to the point. From the time the first African slave set foot on Argentine soil; their contributions to Argentine society, especially in writing and the arts, right up until the turn of the century when they first started to "disappear" under the onslaught of massive, relentless European immigration, along with the indigenous population(and if you read the book, you find out that they didn't disappear, they ARE still here), Reid Andrews' account of black Argentine history takes on a poignant note as we move into multiculturalism and global "Brazilination". I am SO glad I was able to find this book; it may become a collector's item once the rest of Argentina's black population vanishes...

This is a comprehensive book about steam and diesel locomotives of the BAGS. Also includes many interesting and delightfull information about the railway itself. Includes many rare photographs. An excellent investment.

Truly great picture postcard photography of the 'Paris' of South America - Buenos Aires, tango, great food, neighborhood coffee shops, wide avenues and beautiful peoples, most everything you'd what to see, everywhere you wish you had time to visit, all in a book at a really gerat price.

This is not a "travel book" in the usual sense -- you will not, for instance, find anything about where to stay or eat. Rather, this is an historical, cultural, and literary guide to Buenos Aires that will make your time there more interesting and worthwhile.

Progressing geographically through the city's most important streets, plazas, and neighborhoods, Wilson uses the observations of writers, artists, foreign visitors, politicians, academics, and others to give the reader a "feel" for both the city and its inhabitants. These observations are supplemented with just enough historical framework to provide context. Buenos Aires is a city filled with buildings, streets, and monuments that stir up a great deal of emotion in its inhabitants; what this book does is help to explain why these locations are so important and how they fit together -- geographically, historically, psychologically -- to make up the city.

This book was along with me during my recent trip to Buenos Aires and undoubtedly made my time there more satisfying. Its only real deficiency is a lack of good maps -- there is one, but it is very general and doesn't cover enough territory. Nonetheless, I would strongly recommend this book to anyone traveling to Buenos Aires.

Being an Argentine, this book is a true treasure for me. As I was going through its pages, all my memories from home and my city came back to my mind as the scenes from a movie. It is so vivid, colourful, and passionate that it made me move, cry, laugh, miss home, and want to read more. I definitely recommend it to everybody who loves good literature, particularly people who are far from home and want to recover some of their roots.

This book was the most thorough account of Jews in Argentina from the time of 1890-1930. I have never read such a accurate and thought provoking historical book!!!!

The book "Misteriosa Buenos Aires" is one of the best I have ever read. The atmosphere the author gives to the whole work, together with the strategic episodes Manuel Mujica Láinez chooses to show the soul of Buenos Aires city, makes the reader feel absolutely captured by the novel and learn about the most hidden and strange details of life in the Rio de la Plata as centuries go by. Summing up: it is a really amazing volume everyone should have at home, describing not only historical events in Buenos Aires, but also details about the human soul.

A brilliant collection of stories written between 1968 and 1983, when the author states Argentina suffered diverse governments. He says he uses the verb "suffer", because he cannot find one that is more adequate. These tales are about life in Buenos Aires, a beautiful city in a country of abundant resources, that has been broken by decades of repression, corruption, and murderous regimes.
It is in 3 parts: 1. "De la violencia en la vida cotidiana", which has 6 stories, 2. "Del amor en la guerra cotidiana" (4 stories), 3. "La magia en la rutina cotidiana" (3 stories). The longest is 18 pages, the shortest 2 pages, and all of them are immediate, tragic without ever being dreary, and once started, hard to put down.

Gudiño Kieffer is one of my favorite authors, and perhaps the reason he has not been translated into English and gained a wider audience is because his work is so distinctly Argentine, using unique and colorful slang and inflection, so that though the story could be told, the flavor would be lost; the singular flavor of Buenos Aires, that in these "cuentos" comes to life with all the author's love and despair for his country, using his pen as a sword. "Uno no siempre hace lo que quiere. A veces lo que puede. Y a dura pena".