Twenty-year-old Luz, an Argentinian, is on holiday in Madrid with her husband and new born son. But secretly she has a mission - to find her real father. Carlos was a desaparecido - one of the many political activists in Argentina who literally disappeared during the countrys brutal military dictatorship in the seventies - while her mother, a political prisoner, was killed trying to flee the country. The infant Luz was secretly adopted by a wealthy couple, unaware of her true origins. Only three people know Luzs real identity - Eduardo, her father, racked by guilt at this deception; the powerful and corrupt General Alfonso, her grandfather, determined to keep the secret buried; and Miriam, the prostitute who befriended Luzs real mother in her final days and who returns from exile determined to tell Luz the truth. My Name Is Light is a gripping, emotionally charged book, a powerful story about a young girls quest to find her identity and to uncover the deadly secrets of one of Argentinas darkest periods.