The Devil's Country

By: Perla Suez, Rhonda Dahl Buchanan (Translator)

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Paperback | 14 January 2020

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200 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 1.27

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This novel unravels a tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, a fourteen year-old girl named Lum Hue, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother, and sole survivor of the massacre of her village by five white soldiers. With a minimalist prose that has become the trademark of Suez's narrative fiction, the novel unfolds at a vertiginous pace. A recurring theme in Suez's fiction is authoritarianism, specifically the imposition of power over the weak and defenseless. A fan of Quentin Tarantino films, Suez refers to The Devil's Country as her Patagonian Western.

Industry Reviews

"Suez's The Devil's Country is a powerful mix of horror and humanity that evokes Argentina's painful history and the dark thrills of Westerns about revenge and redemption. This crowd-pleaser is a new classic of twenty-first century Latin American fiction."--Christopher Conway, author of Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music (2019) and Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History (2015).

"A story of revenge and introspection, written in an engaging prose charged with powerful images and metaphors, in which rituals and symbols weave a parallel plot." - Malena Rey "Las riendas del desierto" Pagina

"An exquisite control of dialogue, an economy of expression charged with meaning." -- Eugenia Almeida, La Voz del Interior, Cordoba, Argentina.

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