by Ignacio Padilla · ESPASA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423979776
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«Amphitryon» is the novel by Ignacio Padilla, published by Espasa in hardback (219 pages, in Spanish).
Set between the First and Second World Wars, the novel begins in 1916 when a German soldier swaps his identity with a railway worker after a card game. That exchange connects with the Amphitryon project, a plan to train doubles of high-ranking Nazis for risky public appearances, and with the subsequent trial and execution of Adolf Eichmann in Israel. Usurped identities, chess and conspiracies run through a plot that moves between Buenos Aires, Geneva and London.
Winner of the Premio Primavera de Novela 2000, it is a work by Mexican author Ignacio Padilla, originally published by Espasa in 2000 in the Narrativa collection (Espasa-Calpe).
Recommended for readers of Latin American fiction and historical fiction seeking a plot of espionage and identity around the Second World War.
Ignacio Padilla was a Mexican writer whose works were translated into several languages. Padilla helped found the Crack Movement, along with fellow writers Eloy Urroz, Jorge Volpi, and Pedro Angel Palou, as a means for Mexican authors to find their own voice and write beyond magic realism.
