The wind traveler : a novel / Alonso Cueto ; translated by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Latin American literature in translation seriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2020]Description: 232 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781477317747
- 1477317740
- Viajera del viento. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | CUETO, ALONSO | Available | 33111010442529 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware at a store in Lima. In the early 1990s, he had served as an army soldier, engaging in brutal acts whose aftermath still reverberates. He is forced to reckon with his past when a woman he was instructed to kill enters the store and buys a few items. How can she still be alive? What's more, how can she not recognize Ángel? Remarkably, she asks him to deliver her purchases to her house. From this moment, Ángel feels compelled to make amends through any means necessary, even if it requires sacrificing his life of quiet retirement.
A stirring tribute to the wounded souls who yearn to make peace with the past, The Wind Traveler offers a new vision of the fragile human connections that sustain a deeply fractured world.
"Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically, Traveler of the Wind asks if those who were forced to commit violence can atone for their crimes"-- Provided by publisher.