Leila Guerriero



I didn't think it possible for a story so contemporary, so political, and so steeped in reality to be infused with the intensity of a thriller and with such poetic force. The Call is a masterclass in writing an impossible book. In our world of radicalisms today, few dare to explore with such tenacity the gray areas and contradictions that make up who we are. A hundred years from now, we'll still be talking about this tour de force of Leila Guerreiro's



One of the great journalists in Spanish... The Call left a profound impression on me



Goes far beyond a portrait or a profile of Silvia Labayru: The Call is a book about love, violence, journalistic ethics, the truth and the terror of its scope. It is a classic - I write it without reservation - that rubs shoulders with and often looks over The Power Broker, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, The Year of Magical Thinking and other timeless works of narrative journalism



This new masterpiece finally squares the circle of the best literary non-fiction in Spanish... Guerriero has taken journalism to a new frontier... There is no judgement. There are facts, versions of facts, and the moral, that is, the thoughtful meditation on the fatal, ambiguous dilemma between death and survival in a pure, dark present. There is high literature. I know that reading La llamada, so addictive, will stay with me forever



Fragmented and multifaceted, this is a monumental portrait of terror and survival



This book has a razor edge. It will cut you until you bleed, and force you to look at what many would like to ignore: the profound, irreparable damage caused by the last military dictatorship in Argentina. Guerriero has painted a masterful and intimate portrait, disturbingly universal, which reveals abysses of suffering and helplessness, but where, despite everything, there is still space for redemption



A masterpiece of this millenium, capable of renegotiating the terms of what literature is today... One of the most powerful books I've read in recent years