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On A Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark

What do you know about Argentina?  I have to admit my knowledge is mostly based on Evita, as in Madonna’s version of Eva Perón.  I learned so much from the new book On A Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark.  I love historical fiction especially when it is about historical events or characters which I know nothing about.  The book has a dual timeline so that we Paloma in New York during 1998.  She’s a jewelry designer and a very neat character.  She’s then traveling to Buenos Aires for the summer.   Her father is to be the Argentinian diplomat for the U.N. Paloma starts in learning secrets from her parents' past.  She gets help from Franco Bonetti so she can get the real story of her father, Santiago.  The storyline connects with Argentina in the 1970s.  This time period is referred to as the Dirty War Santiago was in Argentina during the military dictatorship of 1976 when Gen Jorge Videla had some 30,000 people “disappear.  The people who were killed are referred to as “Desaparecidos”.  The story is so fast-paced and reads like a thriller.  In the end, I was hoping my book was just missing pages and there was more to come, but it really was the end.  I want this story to continue!  We need a sequel.  This book shook me and it is so beautiful so I painted the edges to keep it in my collection.  


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