Did Federico García Lorca’s lover Enrique Amorim steal his corpse? Did he disguise himself as Jean Paul Sartre to attend a secret meeting between Chaplin and Picasso? Did he sabotage Pablo Neruda’s efforts to win the Nobel Prize?
After monumental research into the Buenos Aires of the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War and post war Paris, Santiago Roncagliolo reveals the private lives of the great geniuses of 20th Century art, their jealousies, rivalries and loves. He borrows the eyes of the chameleon-like Enrique Amorim: millionaire and communist, homosexual and married man, Uruguayan and Argentinian, he was capable of seducing the most brilliant minds of the century. With García Lorca he had a mysterious love, a love capable even of death.