La silla del águila

Synopsis of La silla del águila

«La silla del águila» is the political novel by Carlos Fuentes, published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover, with 431 pages in Spanish.

The action takes place in 2020, in a Mexico without telecommunications or computers due to punishment from the United States; there, the struggle for the presidency unleashes ambitions, betrayals and secrets among senior officials, and occupying the Chair of the Eagle, symbol of power, becomes a roller coaster.

It is an epistolary novel: the story advances through letters and cassette tapes. The work was originally published in 2003 and received the San Clemente Prize in 2005.

For readers of political fiction and Mexican narrative interested in the satire of power and its mechanisms.