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  • Location: Santiago, Buenos Aires

Short War

Short War

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1973: Young flames can have dark futures

  • ISBN: 978-0857309563
  • Genre: Fiction

What you need to know before your trail

It’s 1973, and Jewish-American Gabriel Lazris is sixteen years old and desperately in love with Caro Ravest, a Chilean Catholic. When the pair meet at a party in Santiago, something clicks. They fall fast, but with news of growing instability in Chile spreading even faster – partially thanks to Gabriel’s Nixon-loving newspaper editor dad – can they stay together amid political uncertainty?

Decades later, Gabriel’s American-raised adult daughter Nina heads to Buenos Aires in a last-ditch effort to save her dissertation. She quickly gets sidetracked: first by a sexy professor, then by a controversial book called Guerra Eterna. A document of war and an underground classic, Guerra Eterna destabilises Nina’s identity and drags Gabriel’s past into the light.

Travel Guide

Santiago and Chile

The story of a family tangled up in America’s dirty history in 1970s Chile – there’s lots of politics, culture and geopolitical changes here but more than that – the human effects are the most revealing.

The author used many books and sources to research her novel but she mentions the CIA Diary of Philip Agee =  Inside the Company as the book gave a window into the mindset of Cold Warriors operation in Latin America.

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Destination/Location: Santiago and Chile   Author: Lily Meyer   Departure: 1973

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