Román Alberdi, a chain-smoking libertarian dreamer inspired by Juan Bautista Alberdi, falls for Julia "La Negra" Torres, a fierce Montonera revolutionary, in a fractured 1970s Buenos Aires teetering under junta rule. Their love--a volatile clash of free-market ideals and communist fire--ignites a spiral of betrayal, violence, and exile, from clandestine weddings in damp basements to a cyanide-laced tomb that doesn't quite kill. Spanning decades, the saga stretches to 1990s Havana, where Julia, scarred and deafened, trades her body for soap, hunted by Merce, Román's vengeful ex-ally turned SIDE operative. Told in a non-linear torrent of digressive brilliance--replete with footnotes, raw humor, and visceral despair--this is Shakespeare unbound, a tragic epic of liberty's cost in a world of disappearing dreams. Perfect for fans of infinite jests, political infernos, and love stories that end in strangulation rather than sonnets.
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