Thorndike nos relata en esta obra el funcionamiento de la prensa expropiada durante el gobierno de Juan Velasco Alvarado y los meses finales del gobierno militar y de su deterioro. Con esta obra la renovación que Thorndike representa avanza un paso más: insume sucesos de la actualidad inmediata y propone la relevancia del hecho social como elemento céntrico para la narrativa.
Guillermo Thorndike Losada was a Peruvian journalist and writer, who helped to found several important newspapers within Peru. Thorndike helped to found La República, one of the country's main national dailies, and was the founder of Cronicawan, the first nationally circulated Quechua language newspaper in Peru's history. He has been called one of the most important Peruvian journalists of the past 40 years.