Benjamín Prado visits Tenerife with his new book: ‘The General’s Ring’The day
Summer arrives in Tenerife loaded with literary presentations. Next Monday, July 1, the Lemus Bookstore will receive the writer Benjamin Prado in its establishment on Avenida Trinidad lagoon. The event will start at 7:00 p.m. and will be attended by the author and the organizer of the meeting, Francisco González Lemus. This copy is titled ‘The General’s Ring’.
Born in Madrid in 1961, Prado cultivates the genres of novels, poetry and essays. He runs the magazine Notebooks of Latin America and in his creations he stands out for his popular language and masterful use of metaphor. In 1995 he debuted as a novelist with Queer. The following year he published Never shake hands with a left-handed gunman and Where do you think you are going and who do you think you are?which followed someone is approaching (1998), The snow is empty (2000), Bad people who walk (2006), Operation Gladio (2011) or Reckoning (2013), all of them belonging to the series The cases of Juan Urbano.
As an author, however, he had already seen several books of poetry published before 1995, such as a simple heart (1986), his debut work in the lyrical genre, or The blue heart of lighting (1991). Throughout his career as a writer he has been recognized with various awards such as the Hiperión, the Ciudad de Melilla International Poetry Prize, the Generation of 27 or the Andalusia Novel Prize. He has written several songs together Joaquin Sabinalike all the ones on the album Vinegar and roses. He has also collaborated with artists such as Laziness either Coke Mesh.
Synopsis
Buenos Aires, 1987: Mysterious assailants break into General Perón’s tomb and steal his hands. Esoteric, political and economic theories were considered, but the enigma has never been solved: who took them and why?
Madrid, 2024: A new historical memory law opens the door to prosecute some repressors of Franco’s regime and Juan Urbano receives the task of finding The electricianone of the regime’s most feared torturers, who blackmailed and stripped some detainees and their families of their property.
The professor-detective will take readers to Perón’s house in Spain, where Nazis met with Freemasons and black magic rituals were practiced with Evita’s mummy, to Torremolinos in the seventies, a mix of slums and Hollywood stars, passing through the tax havens where many murderers hid their money.
