In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Federico Lorenz's new novel "The Coyote's Tree" has been published. The book delves into family and collective memory traversed by political violence and the repression of Argentina's last military dictatorship. The story follows a narrator who, after his father's death, tries to reconstruct who he was and the place he held during a time marked by labor struggles, combative unionism, and state violence, both in the years leading up to and during the state terrorism. Through fragmented memories and the voices of those who shared those years, the novel reweaves an intimate and social tapestry where the experience of workers and their families is central. Lorenz focuses on the daily consequences of fear and persecution, but also on the minimal gestures of camaraderie and humanity that, in that context, functioned as concrete forms of resistance. Federico Lorenz, a historian, teacher at the National College of Buenos Aires, and independent researcher at CONICET, specializes in the last dictatorship, unionism, and the history of the Falkland Islands. He has published essays such as "Whose is March 24th? History, conflicts, perspectives" and novels like "Montoneros or the white whale" and "The dead of our wars".
