León está completamente solo. Su madre lo abandonó de pequeño, su padre ha emigrado en busca de fortuna, su profesor de matemáticas aparece colgado en el colegio y todos parecen embelesados por el discurso desquiciado del profesor suplente. Todos, menos León. Más que un simple embaucador, el suplente encarna la locura criminal de un país que se resquebraja. Una novela de terror situada en los aterradores días del final de los 70...
Author
Marcelo Birmajer was born the 29th of November of 1966 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His pearents were jews that emigrated to this country from Europe. At the age of twenty years old he started working as a writer for "Fierro" magazine (argentinian comic magazine). After that he also worked for several newspapers as a writter and he also wrote some movie scripts. Marcelo's first contact whit book writing was caused by Pablo De Santis, a fellow writter he met in Fierro magazine. He was organizing some book collection, and he asked Marcelo to write some short novels. That's when he wrote "Un crimen secundario", "Un veneno saludable" and "Derrotado por un muerto" His works go from comic book stories to short tales, novels and essays. He's the co-author of the movie script "El abrazo partido" (Daniel Burman, 2001), winner of a variety of prizes. He also took part in the creating of "Sol de Noche" script. He has won the Konex 2004 award as one of the five best writers of the decade (1994-2003) in the young adult field. In 2011 he won this award again, as one of the five best movie script writters of the decade (2001-2011). He lives in Buenos Aires city, with his wife Debora and his three kids.
