Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case
Published on 5. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-7392989-3-7 (ISBN)
Description
A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he was killed in a shoot-out - just one of the Junta's many thousands of victims.
What if this complex figure - a father, militant, and writer who delved the regime's political crimes - had also sought to reveal the truth of his own daughter's death?
Elsa Drucaroff's imagining of Rodolfo Walsh undertaking the most personal investigation of his life is an electrifying, suspense-filled drama in which love and life decisions are inseparable from political convictions as he investigates the mystery of what happened to his own daughter.
The head of intelligence for Montoneros, a clandestine Peronist organisation co-ordinating armed resistance against the dictatorship, Rodolfo Walsh was also a prolific writer and journalist, seen as the forerunner of the true crime genre with his 1957 book Operation Massacre.
What if beneath the surface of his Letter to my Friends lay a gripping story lost to history?
What if this complex figure - a father, militant, and writer who delved the regime's political crimes - had also sought to reveal the truth of his own daughter's death?
Elsa Drucaroff's imagining of Rodolfo Walsh undertaking the most personal investigation of his life is an electrifying, suspense-filled drama in which love and life decisions are inseparable from political convictions as he investigates the mystery of what happened to his own daughter.
The head of intelligence for Montoneros, a clandestine Peronist organisation co-ordinating armed resistance against the dictatorship, Rodolfo Walsh was also a prolific writer and journalist, seen as the forerunner of the true crime genre with his 1957 book Operation Massacre.
What if beneath the surface of his Letter to my Friends lay a gripping story lost to history?
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 200 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7392989-3-7 (9781739298937)
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Elsa Drucaroff was born and raised in Buenos Aires. She is the author of four novels and two short story collections, in addition to being a prolific essayist. She has published numerous articles on topics such as Argentine literature, literary criticism, and feminism. Her work has been translated into several languages.
She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and is a professor of Languages and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, where she has taught for several decades.
Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case is Elsa Drucaroff's first novel to be translated into English.
She holds a PhD in Social Sciences and is a professor of Languages and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, where she has taught for several decades.
Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case is Elsa Drucaroff's first novel to be translated into English.