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In this story, the narrator is simply an onlooker that analyzes the facts and puts them in order. His watchful eye is the question, but there are no answers here, only the perplexity of what is real.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Everything that is narrated in this novel is exactly the way it happened, all its characters are real people, and the story, masterfully unraveled and illuminated to its very last corner by a great investigative task, is real. A ruthless narration when showing the intricacies of power, the deepest roots of corruption and its scope, just like the dull mechanisms of justice. 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Su victoria electoral dice mucho sobre el pa s m s poderoso del mundo y sus ciudadanos, pero tambi n sobre nosotros como sociedad.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ahora, ante la xenofobia, la misoginia, el nacionalismo, el populismo y otros azotes caracter sticos de ese r gimen, \u003cb\u003e cu les son las mayores amenazas para la regi n? \u003c\/b\u003eCon el mejor estilo de los panfletos y libelos pol ticos de los siglos x ix y xx, Jorge Volpi alza la voz en contra de Trump, sus ideas y sus acciones, propone un entendimiento claro y racional de su peligroso pensamiento, y tambi n pol ticas, contrapesos y resistencias a las peores lacras de su administraci n. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJorge Volpi, (M xico, 1968) es autor de novelas, entre ellas En busca de Klingsor (Premio Biblioteca Breve y Deux-Oc ans-Grinzane Cavour) y El fin de la locura. Tambi n ha escrito ensayos como La imaginaci n y el poder. Una historia intelectual de 1968 y Examen de mi padre. 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