Overview
New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the LarreasāĀ worldāuntil an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Palomaās curiosity about her fatherās past, of which she knows little.
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When the family travels to Buenos Aires for Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma is determined to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. With the help of a local university student, Franco Bonetti, an activist member of H.I.J.O.S.āa group whose members are the children of the desaparecidos, or the ādisappeared,ā men and women who were forcibly disappeared by the state during Argentinaās āDirty WarāāPaloma unleashes a chain of events that not only leads her to question her family and her identity, but also puts her life in danger.
InĀ compelling fashion, On a Night of a Thousand Stars speaks to relationships, morality, and identity during a brutal period in Argentinian history, and the understandingāand redemptionāpeople crave in the face of tragedy.
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
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