"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--

An art critic and auction house employee takes on the role of art world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation as she searches for a master forger in the Buenos Aires art world who has achieved legendary status.

-- The New York Times Book Review The narrator of -- Optic Nerve marks the English–language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it.