Return to the Dark Valley

Books and poems have been Manuela Beltrán's way out of a wretched childhood. Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who says the Pope fathered him, will stop at nothing to found his ideal society. Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest who was once a paramilitary, examines his guilt. Juana and the consul, tied by a feeling they have not yet named, keep tracking each other down, while the restless life of the boy poet Rimbaud runs alongside. Emigrants who feel they must go home to take revenge of one kind or another, they move through a world in upheaval that offers them no welcome, where the only rest seems to come from travel itself: going away, coming back, never ceasing to search.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

500 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Crime (assigned by AI)

First published

2016 by Literatura Random House

Author's age

51 when first published

ISBN

9789588979267 (original)

9781609454258 (Europa Editions, United States)

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