The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta
A writer sets out to reconstruct a forgotten Trotskyist who in 1958 joined a young lieutenant in holding a highland town for a single day, and interviews everyone who knew him, getting a different man back from each. Around the interviews the Lima of the near future is coming apart under an invasion that may or may not be happening. Every witness produces a version rather than a fact.
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