La campaña / Tha Campaign
Novel , 1990
Alfaguara
Pages: 246
Baltasar Bustos is a law student employed by the imperial Supreme Court of Buenos Aires, he goes into the bedroom of the president of the Court and swaps the latter’s new-born baby for a black baby, the child of a sick prostitute. For his part, the legitimate child is given to a black enslaved woman. This novel has all the ingredients of a classic romance novel: impossible romance, unstoppable passion, obsessive, desperate characters who live at the forefront of the fight for the freedom and independence of their nation.