Product Overview
Una misma noche, de Leopoldo Brizuela, es la novela ganadora del Premio Alfaguara 2012, en la cual el escritor ofrece una reflexin sobre el mal y la injusticia en la dictadura argentina y donde los mtodos de atropellamiento de los civiles que se usaron an se siguen presentando en el ao 2010.
El protagonista regresa a la casa de sus padres para cuidar de su madre viuda y un da ve cmo las fuerzas del orden asaltan la casa de sus vecinos. Ese incidente le hace recordar que, en 1976, cuando l tena trece aos, esa misma casa sufri otro ataque cuando vivan all los Kuperman y Argentina estaba sumida en el terror de la Junta Militar.
Aquel suceso dej una huella imborrable en la memoria de Leonardo, sobre todo por el papel que su padre jug en todo aquello.
Para rescatar aquel pasado que haba querido olvidar, el protagonista decide escribir una novela en la que le da voz tanto a las vctimas como a los verdugos.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Leonardo Bazn unwittingly witnesses the robbery of a neighboring house. But this wasnt your typical robbery. It was carried out by a well-organized group using sophisticated logistics; and even included a member of the police force.
Yet, more disturbing to Bazn are the memories of a similar crime witnessed with his parentsthat took place in that same house in 1976 during the first years of Argentinas military dictatorship. Having suppressed the traumatic event from his childhood, Bazn sets out to write it down in an attempt to free himself of a past hes been unable to forget or understand. How exactly did he and his parents react and how should he judge those reactions today? How can a decades-old criminal still be in use? And how is it possible that even now people still react with the same
level of fear?
Written like a detectives note pad, where with each piece of evidence thoughts and conclusions are called into question and organized crime is revealed, Una misma noche is a suspense novel that explores the role citizens play when facing the most brutal and secretive forms of power, and also reflects on the unbearable conscience of our own cowardice. Intimate, political, confessional, powerful, and mysterious, this is a story destined to endure.
