Si me querés, quereme transa
Cristian Alarcón

NONFICTION | 2022 | 304 pages

In a Buenos Aires slum, five clans fight for control of the cocaine supply. A woman named Alcira, gets by on her wits and lack of fear of death. Cristian Alarcón delves into this underworld and constructs masterful tale of a never-ending war through his own voice and that of the protagonists, a war full of uncertain truces and volatile triumphs where the participants never know what tomorrow might bring.

RIGHTS: spanish PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | polish WYDAWNICTWO KARAKTER 

“With If You Love Me, Love Me Crooked, Alarcón has produced a text as good as any of the boom novels. He has a wonderful ear for subtle emphases, twists, dramatic pauses, and linguistic ingenuity and translates them into prose that is neither plain documentation nor literary window decorations.”
— María Moreno
“An extraordinary crónica [...] that finds itself destined to expand the richness of nonfiction, to be placed among the genre’s most valuable works.”
— Ángel Berlanga, Radar