Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Dark comedy comes to the Argentinian Pampas and to the strangely named town of Open Door
Open Door
What you need to know before your trail
When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand, although a local girl also proves irresistible . . .
This story told in the present tense and comes across like a strange dream like sequences where the narrator wanders around rather like in a trance like state experimenting with what her new found home has to offer. She wants to find out more about Open Door and will ensure that it spills its secrets.
Travel Guide
Open Door is a real place and once we’ve been around it, thanks to the marvels of the maps below, well it was quite the place to be – it’s the kind of place that would have lots of secrets and such a unique setting as this was hard to resist.
The great plains of the Pampas are vividly evoked in many varied and ‘unique’ ways but to say more here would spoil it. The remote plains have the power to host some ghostly like and unsettling scenes and to watch them is rather like sitting in the middle of this landscape and feeling the hazy view blur to allow some tumbleweed to blow across your view point.
Streetview Maps
Open Door - one of the main streets
Open Door - a pretty street corner in town
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