by Elsa Plaza · EDITORIAL ALREVES, S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419615466
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In late 1931, shortly after the great Republican celebration, the body of a woman is discovered buried under the tiles of a small building in the Llefià neighborhood of Badalona. The story of this real crime, which filled the pages of newspapers throughout Spain for months, is recreated in this novel, traversed by an absorbing plot that includes not only the crime of the German Emmy Langer, but also the early years of a time of hope and revolutionary ruptures that were soon buried in anonymous graves, as was the body of Emmy herself. Margarita Casas, a journalist, single mother, who arrives in Barcelona after her Argentine exile attracted by the Republican hope, will cover the case for her newspaper without being able to escape the events that are shaking the world, such as the struggle for women's right to vote or the conquest of spaces until then forbidden to women, but also the rise of a fascism that is gaining strength in Europe and that is imposed with a military coup in Argentina, a country always present through tango as music and lyrics in the background of the darkest events that mark the life of the murderer and his victim. Elsa Plaza, with a masterly pulse, with a masterful rhythm and with a prose crossed by nostalgia, the perfect historical recreation and the impressive characterization of the protagonists and their time, fascinates us with a novel that is, like that Barcelona of the Second Republic to the rhythm of tango, convulsive and unforgettable.
