LA CACHETADA

The lives of two high-voltage women run parallel to the history of Argentina in the mid-twentieth century. On one side, Eva Duarte de Perón, Evita for her compatriots; on the other, Libertad Lamarque, the great actress and singer. Two forces of nature that destiny will unite as they would never have imagined. Micaela Agostini, with just the right dose of intrigue and humor, brings us closer to these two indisputable figures of Argentine history, humanizes their weaknesses, shows their complicated beginnings, their fits of anger and frustration, their unspeakable desires and the enmity they professed to each other. The plot takes us by the hand to an unusual ending, that of the funeral of the first lady once she has left this world to pass into that of myths. In this framework, one last surprise awaits our protagonists. --Amazon.com