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Return to the dark valley

Gamboa, Santiago, 1965-2017
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Gritty Central and South American lives from an underground Colombian literary voice. Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolano, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential. Manuela Beltran, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; and, Juana and the consul, central characters in Gamboa's Night Prayers, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt and need.
Main title:
Return to the dark valley / Santiago Gamboa ; translated by Howard Curtis.
Imprint:
Brentwood : Europa Editions UK, 2017.
Collation:
424 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781609454258 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
2510270
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