The B side of Argentina’s political history and the secrets of a cursed figure.
How is it possible for a man who comes from nothing to become one of the most influential figures of the moment? Through the incredible adventures of a cursed journalist -a sort of Citizen Kane of the telepolitical era-, the secret backroom of power during most of the 20th century in Argentina is revealed.
Jorge Fernández Díaz narrates it as a historical novel without fiction, with a cinematographic pulse and scenes as surprising as disturbing through which parade, among many others, Perón, Guido, Massera, Videla, Galtieri, Alfonsín, Menem, Cavallo, Jacobo Timerman, Marcelo Longobardi, Daniel Hadad and José “Pepe” Eliaschev.
Fernández Díaz recounts for the first time how Bernardo Neustadt, at that time an ideologist of neoliberalism and perhaps the most powerful man in Argentina, mounted a campaign to silence this inconvenient and revealing chronicle only to, many years later, ask for his forgiveness in a melancholic scene full of symbolism about the end of an era.
RELEVANT DATA: Jorge Fernández Díaz is one of the most influential voices in Argentine journalism and literature. His works are highly acclaimed and respected by critics and the media, and he is the winner of multiple awards, such as two Konex Platinum Awards, the Martin Fierro Award, the Silver Laurel for Personality of the Year, or the Cross of the Order of Isabel the Catholic.
What the critics have said:
“Jorge Fernández Díaz is one of the great Argentine writers. He possesses a unique and very entertaining narrative power.” Amazon
“Excellent political research. Jorge Fernández Diaz knows how to captivate the reader and trap him from the first to the last page in a book that not only tells the story of one of the country’s most controversial characters, but also the very history of the last 50 years in Argentina.” Goodreads
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: In development for a TV Series.
LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Spanish.
