Essays, political news, fiction, police, biographies. Different options for those who want to give stories this Sunday.
1.- THE DAYS OF VIOLENCE (1820-1852) Eduardo Sacheri
Second volume of Argentine history. In this period of history, the violence of political confrontations reaches levels unknown before, and very rare afterwards. Executions, the slaughter of prisoners, the execution of opponents, the display of corpses become regular and naturalized as part of the landscape of political struggle.
2.- LUGONES Cristina Mucci
June 13 marks 150 years since the birth of Leopoldo Lugones, recognized for his contributions to modern literature and also repudiated for his adherence to authoritarianism. In his political life, which began in socialism and took several turns until he supported the country’s first coup d’état in 1930, he sought to influence and participate in power. In this book, the poet’s biography is the starting point to tell the relationship between intellectuals and political life in Argentine history.
3.- The Circumstance, Jorge Consiglio
A woman is detained in a police station. Her temperance baffles the agents around her, but at the same time allows him to have the courage necessary to make her statement right there and not in court. Thus begins a story as stark as it is captivating, in which the family genealogy of her, the fourth generation of Argentines, intersects with the history of the country. The only daughter of a horse-loving landowner and a woman dedicated to domestic life, she spends her first years, without major surprises, in a ranch in a small town on the Pampas plain. She is a loving child, spoiled by everyone, and early on she manifests a particular interest in art. Until an unprecedented flood has unexpected consequences for her entire family and she must move to Buenos Aires. Jorge Consiglio revisits, and also expands, the classic countryside-city opposition and, in that gesture, finds fertile ground to explore the limits of realism and the Argentine literary tradition. The Circumstance, written with a bold and accurate style, illuminates areas of a country’s history that seemed settled, but that are actually more alive than ever.
4.-You’re Not Here Tomorrow, by Lee Child
Translation of Aldo Giacometti
Two in the morning on the New York subway, first decade of the 21st century. The memory of the attack on the Twin Towers is alive in the city. Jack Reacher and five passengers in a carriage. Something is not right with one of them: he meets all the requirements of the suicide bomber. Reacher knows them by heart and is going to take action before it’s too late. The reflection of a war in the least expected territory. This is how the plot of Tomorrow You’re Not Here begins to unravel.
5.- THE KITCHEN OF ARGENTINE ECONOMIC POLICY, by Juan Carlos de Pablo Ezequiel Burgo
With the eyes of those who have visited the Palacio de Hacienda, the authors achieve the (almost) impossible: reveal the logic of the behavior of the Argentine economy from 1956 to the present day.
6.- THE KNIGHTS OF THE NIGHT, by Daniel Balmaceda
A historic police case with the seal of Balmaceda. A group of European immigrants make up a creative and original criminal gang in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.
7.- DEACTIVATE THE BOMB, by Andrés Hatum
This book immerses us in a management fable that reveals the dangers of toxic leadership and bad practices in a corporation. In its pages it invites us to reflect on the evils that lurk in companies and offers tools to build business cultures that inspire and transform, challenging corporate mediocrity.
AFTER A CERTAIN AGE, by Charlie López
Seven stories that give voice to those who, after a certain age and in full use of their vitality and experience, evoke their past and analyze their new reality while they plan and get excited about a future that admits changes to achieve fulfillment in that new stage of the life.
