Budapest, 1944. En una Europa devastada por la guerra, Hanna y Bora se reencuentran muchos años después de su doloroso divorcio. Jamás imaginaron que volverían a convivir en circunstancias tan extremas. Los nazis han ocupado la ciudad y cazan judíos. Bora, un aristocrático pintor y diplomático, refugia en el sótano de su casa a una pareja judía: su exmujer y su actual marido, con quien ella lo engañó. La historia se desarrolla en dos planos: el del subsuelo y el de la casa, donde Bora vive con Marga, su segunda esposa. Ambos mundos entrarán en un conflicto silencioso que modificará dramáticamente la vida de los personajes. Mientras Bora recibe la visita diaria de un oficial nazi que quiere ser retratado por el eximio artista, los cautivos encontrarán la salvación en el placer, el vínculo más puro con la vida frente al acecho de la muerte. Los inesperados giros del destino llevarán a Bora y a Marga a exiliarse en Argentina, donde la vida volverá a sorprenderlos y aterrorizarlos.
Author
Federico Andahazi is the son of Bela Andahazi, Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín. During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture. It was at this time when he began writing his first stories. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories. In 2008, Andahazi published his first book of nonfiction, Pecar como Dios manda, Sexual History of Argentines. The essay runs in an hypothesis through all his work: you cannot understand the history of a country if you don’t know the history of sex that gestured it. With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution. Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects. His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.
