La hermana

Martha Pelloni is an Argentinian nun who became popular in the 1990s for her relentless pursuit of justice in the murder of María Soledad Morales, a student from the province of Catamarca who was raped and murdered by young men from the elite. Pelloni led the famous "marches of silence," historic demonstrations that culminated in the fall of a complicit and corrupt government. Since then, her courage has made her a symbol of trust and hope for the most vulnerable sectors of society, and has led her to wage countless battles to expose the hidden networks behind child trafficking, human trafficking, satanic rituals, and drug trafficking. Liliana Viola recounts all of this in this captivating book, in which she also constructs the original figure of the "armchair chronicler," a researcher who never ventures out into the field, who works with rigorous archival material, and, overcoming her shyness, manages to engage in profound conversations with her subject. The Sister is, therefore, a "chronicle-profile": an intimate portrait of a singular nun and, at the same time, an X-ray of the vulnerability of the weak in the face of a power that conspires to conceal the truth.