The Argentine competition winner, Gonzalo Castro’s Invernadero (Winter House),offers a stylistically elegant if overlong contemplation of the experimental one-armed Mexican novelist Mario Bellatín, a famed prankster who here engages with his daughter and friends (all fictional characters) in an interrogation of biography (itself a central conceit in Bellatín’s fiction).

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• Mario Bellatin
• Marcela Castañeda
• Graciela Goldchluk
• Romina Paula
• Margo Glantz