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The Baker and the President
A novel about bread and power, about dignity and desperation, and about what happens when the people a government has forgotten refuse to be forgotten.
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On the night of the worst thunderstorm in a decade, a baker with a gun walks into the most powerful building in Argentina.
The Story
Pedro Villanueva has lost everything. His bakery — the one his father built forty years ago in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires — has been destroyed by inflation. His wife has taken their two children to Córdoba. The shelves are bare, the ovens are cold, and the country's president speaks about the suffering of men like Pedro as "short-term adjustments" on evening television.
So Pedro does something no one expects and no one can explain: he breaks into the Casa Rosada, Argentina's presidential palace, during a summer thunderstorm. He carries an old revolver he doesn't know how to load and a school notebook filled with everything he wants to say. His only demand is that the president listen.
What follows is a single night of extraordinary conversation between two men who have nothing in common except a broken country. As Pedro tells his story — of flour prices and foreclosures, of a wife who left and a daughter who asked if Papá was coming home — the president is forced to confront the human cost of his economic revolution.
And as dawn approaches and the police close in, both men discover that the distance between power and powerlessness, between a podium and a counter, between a number on a spreadsheet and a name on a bakery sign, is smaller than either of them believed.
Outside, a nation watches. The media swarms. The crowds gather in the plaza. Pedro's story splits Argentina in two: those who see a criminal and those who see a hero. But inside the locked room, the baker and the president are having the conversation that the country has needed for decades — raw, honest, and impossible to ignore.
A Novel That Will Stay With You
Bread & Power
A gripping exploration of what happens when economic policy meets the kitchen table — when numbers on a spreadsheet become names on a foreclosure notice.
Dignity & Desperation
Pedro's journey is every person's struggle to be heard — a father who simply wants to bring his family home and keep his ovens warm.
The Forgotten Refuse to Be Forgotten
A raw, honest, and impossible-to-ignore conversation that an entire nation has needed for decades — told through one unforgettable night.
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