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Success of the 2011 Prêmio Cultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro for Books Xerxes, a 90-something survivor of the extinct Brazilian Communist Party, hires an unemployed journalist to write his life tale, and most importantly make clear his 1935 tragic love affair with comrade Elza Fernandes, code-named THE LADY. Elza's tale is one of the most bizarre true stories in Brazilian background: as a beautiful 16-year-old, she was suspected of betraying the Party and, although the charge could not be demonstrated, was sentenced to fatality by Luiz Carlos Prestes himself. Prestes, the most eminent Latin American communist innovator in the loving era before the Cuban revolution, had appeared undercover in Rio from Moscow with a mission of overthrowing the Vargas government. A strikingly fashionable, post-utopian narrative, Elza: The Girl mixes the pace of an thriller with the insightfulness and extensive research of an historical novel, producing the listener to a global in which mental, political, and even imaginative truths must be reappraised in order to understand our moving present.
