The Jacarandas: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War

Based on a true story, The Jacarandas is about a brutal and morally challenging world, and yet where human dignity and forgiveness find a way to break through the darkness.

Daniel is a university student who joins the federal police hunting leftist subversives in Buenos Aires during Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s. But it’s an occupation that eats its young, and he soon learns that besides fitness and hate, the military regime requires loyalty, batons, and electric prods.

And the disappeared.

When Daniel returns to the university as an infiltrator in this subversive hotbed, he begins a struggle between duty and morality and between friendship and survival.

The Jacarandas is the story of the purple bloom of the jacaranda tree, whose beauty and messiness are the inextricably intertwined saga that has always been Argentina. It’s an untold perspective on this dark stain in Argentina’s history that sears its social conscience even today.