El Truco Final

In a clever, witty and ironic style, Paco Ignacio Taibo II questions and analyzes the official versions of the insurrection movement of 1710, showing how the movement has been stripped off of its strength and original splendor in an attempt to give us an image of a “light” and “decaffeinated” fatherland.

Ana María Josefa Cruz o Pitusa como le llaman sus amigos, acaba de terminar el bachiller y decide entrar en la Universidad. Allí conocerá a Ángel Portillo, un profesor de matemáticas.

Embrujo gitano nos sumerge en una Buenos Aires violenta y convulsionada y en la historia de dos mujeres luchadoras e independientes que deberán evitar que la traición de un hombre las condene para siempre.

For some, Evita was a goddess, a queen, and a patron mother; for others she was a social climber, and a crazy and ordinary analphabet; her body is the protagonist of this novel. This book tells the impressive and absurd story of the peregrinations of Evita's perfectly embalmed corpse across oceans and in and out of Peronists' hands.A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and deathand the peregrinations of her body? with a dazzling array of literary devices, including imagined interviews and memoirs, even fake screenplays.... he affirms his place among Latin...