La humedad de la arena

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...

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.

A Modest Proposal' is a 1729 Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.

"En el extraordinario universo literario de Wilhelm Genazino, el desvío ocioso lleva al ciudadano a un pensamiento responsable... Magnífico". Cecilia Dreymüller, "El País"