Luz del Fuego

Who was Luz del Fuego? Who was the woman who defied the world in this way and in 1952, in the middle of the Great Gala Ball of the Rio Carnival, she took out two pistols and shouted "I am not the bride of Brazil! I am the Gunslinger Bride!" fired all your bullets at the ceiling? Why was she murdered in 1967 on her heavenly Isla del Sol and dumped her stone-filled body into the sea? This is the story of a legend that existed in the flesh. Dora Vivacqua gave her life to embody the myth of Luz del Fuego: warrior without mask and avenger without mask, heroine or villain, loved or hated by all of Brazil. She wrote cursed novels, founded political parties and utopian islands. She danced with snakes and played with fire to hypnotize an entire country: a modern and radically free Lilith, a woman of action whose ideas shine today with more light than ever. Between the detective quest and the novel evocation, reality and memories, Javier Montes modulates genres and voices to follow with a vibrant narrative rhythm the mysterious traces of a fascinating character. He takes up the threads of his previous Stranded in Rio and sets up as a backdrop a great fresco of that time: that modern Brazil that has already vanished and that perhaps never fully existed.