I will put in a plug for a book I worked on as an editor. Malena focuses on the state murder of Argentina’s desaparecidos—the 30,000 civilians kidnapped, tortured, killed, and “disappeared” by the military junta in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The novel, which features an American of Argentine descent who must make a profound moral choice when he discovers the horror of the junta’s killing prisons, shows how we are implicated in the horrors of our larger world and must be brave enough to turn guilt into action.
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