The Magic Fire

Lillian Groag’s The Magic Fire takes place in Buenos Aires, the “Paris of the South,” a beautiful city full of Europeans fled from various political regimes, home to the Berg family. A vibrant mix of Viennese and Italian backgrounds, the Bergs are steeped in opera, wine, food, theatre, and history, all debated at full voice and top speed, with increasing relish and a great flair for the dramatic!

Buenos Aires, city of the dying Eva Perón, where sirens blare in the dead of night, and the ‘secret’ police are becoming less and less so. Lise Berg, the baby of the family, now an adult, takes us back to those days and the events around her seventh birthday, as she realizes how these two worlds were never as separate as any of them had wished — or pretended.