by Sergio Ramírez · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789681902353
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«Un baile de máscaras» is the autobiographical novel by Sergio Ramírez, published by Alfaguara in paperback (230 pages, in Spanish).
In a Nicaraguan village, two feuding families and a parade of eccentric characters prepare a costume ball in honor of a local socialite on August 5, 1942. The novel, with humor and lively dialogue, looks nostalgically at the music and popular culture that mark the young protagonist's childhood.
The book belongs to the Alfaguara Hispánica collection and the novel is divided into seven chapters.
Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.
