03/23/2021 1:18 PM
Clarín.com
Culture
Updated 03/23/2021 1:18 PM
First time
, the book by former president Mauricio Macri published this month by Planeta editorial tops the list of the best-selling books of the previous week (from March 15 to 21, 2021), according to the weekly report by Ilhsa, the company that manages the Yenny and El Ateneo bookstores and that, by volume, serves as a reference on the situation of the local market.
It is followed by
The Health of the Popes
(South American), by Nelson Castro;
Urgent Republic!
(Emecé), by Santiago Kovadloff, and
La tía Cosima
(Sum of Letters) by Florencia Bonelli.
And then
Simply Charli
(Montena), by Charli D'amelio;
The duel
(Planet), by Gabriel Rolón
;
Harry Potter in the philosopher's stone
(Salamandra), by JK Rowling and
(Bad) educated,
by Florencia Freijo, in the first positions.
Macri's
book
was these days at the center of a media controversy -and on social networks- as a result of the fact that some bookstores chose not to offer it to their customers (although they clarified that
they sell it on demand
) and defended the right to design their catalogs;
a controversy in which the former Minister of Culture Pablo Avelluto -who posted a photo of the volume exhibited in a local-, the current Chief of Cabinet Santiago Cafiero -who said that it should be exhibited in "el rincón del vago" and
Macri
himself
, who judged the position of booksellers who do not sell the book as "isolated episodes of intolerance."
"There is an interest in people to understand the situation and its implications for the future. Many buy books of politicians not only because they are in favor. Also those who oppose, out of curiosity", defines the director of Grupo ILHSA to Clarín.
Consulted by
Clarín,
Jorge González, Commercial Director of Grupo ILHSA (Yenny, El Ateneo, Tematika and Editorial El Ateneo) argued his position: "We always sell
all releases
. Beyond their political overtones. In fact, he
sincerely
topped our ranking
at the time. It was a boom. There is an interest in people to understand the situation and its implications for the future. Many buy books on politicians not only because they are in favor. Also those who oppose it, out of curiosity, "he said.
"First time" is already in the bookstores!
I'll wait for you tomorrow at 18:00.
We broadcast the book presentation live on all networks.
pic.twitter.com/S7QcuHaFjQ
- Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri) March 17, 2021
The cost of
First Time
is 1,690 pesos and the former president presents it as "the result of more than a year of reflections on my presidency. In its pages I tell the story as I lived it. It is the chronicle of our achievements and of the hard battles we had to fight against populism. It is the story of our successes but also of our mistakes and, above all, of what we learned together on this first trip to an Argentina of respect, freer, more modern and democratic " .
VA / PK
Look also
Bookstores that do not sell Macri's book: the era of cancellation
Pablo Avelluto's tweet about Mauricio Macri's book that generated a stir in the networks