On a Night of a Thousand Stars av Andrea Yaryura Clark

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<DIV><B>In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts</B> <B>the start of Argentina's "Dirty War" in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.</B><BR/><BR/><I>New York, 1998</I><B>. </B>Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas’ world—until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma’s curiosity about her father’s past, of which she knows little.<BR/> <BR/> When the family travels to Buenos Aires for Santiago's UN ambassadorial appointment, Paloma is determined to learn more about his life in the years leading up to the military dictatorship of 1976. With the hel