A terrible earthquake has just hit the Peruvian capital. In the population, on the one hand affected by the disaster and the other mesmerized by the results of the matches of the football World Championship taking place in Mexico in 1970, they meander enormous tensions. Detective Simon Weiss is responsible for solving two murders shocking and seemingly unrelated: the crucifixion and the beheading of a Japanese in a pool hall and the apparent hanging of an old jew. On the heels of a pair of hideously crimes perpetrated since World War II, Weiss intends to discover the surprising relationship between the authors, whilst working in the depths of his psyche to overcome his demons.

Isaac Goldenberg (Chepen, Peru, 1945) lives in New York since 1964. He has published four novels, twelve books of poetry, one of short stories and three works of theater. His most recent publications are the poetry collections Diálogos conmigo y mis otros (2013), La vida breve (2012) and the novel Acuérdate of escorpión (2010). In 2001 his novel La vida in plazos de Don Jacobo Lerner was selected by the United States Yiddish Book Center as one of the 100 most important works of world Jewish literature of the past 150 years.
In 2015 he published with Ladolfi publisher collecting Dialogues poems with me and with my other (Diálogos conmigo y otros mis) translated by Emilio Coco.
He has received, among others, the following prizes: in 2001 the Prize of the Poetry Club P.E.N Peru Peruvian blues for the book, and in 2003 the Summer Theatre Prize for the work Golpe de gracia. His books have been translated into several languages, among them a novel in Italian: The father's name (Florence, Giuntina, 2003).
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Hostos Community College of The City University of New York, where he directs the Institute of Latin American Writers and the international culture magazine "Hostos Review."
Isaac Goldemberg is considered one of the greatest living Jewish writers, wandering man who makes his maximum of Theodor Adorno: "He who has no home, is writing a place to live" (Michele Brancale).