Renaldo e-bog

Argentina 1978 . . . A brutal military junta suspends civil liberties for anyone who opposes it. Distraught mothers of ';The Disappeared' parade daily in front of the capital building. In retaliation, violent acts of terrorism shatter what is left of normal life.Only one thing can unite all the people. The World Cup of football.Two brothers, Renaldo and Lonfranco De Seta, chart a different course for their futures. While both brothers fall in love with powerful women, Renaldo, a young soccer prodigy, strives to make a place on Argentina's national team. Lonfranco, angry and disenchanted, is seduced into becoming a Montonero terrorist.From the plains of the Pampas to boardrooms, boudoirs, battlefields, locker rooms, and seething stadiums, Renaldois a love story unlike any ever written and a novel shockingly relevant to times we live in.