
Pacazo
Roy Kesey(Author)
Dzanc Books (Publisher)
Published on 18. January 2011
Book
Hardback
530 pages
978-0-9826318-2-9 (ISBN)
Description
Roy Kesey's riveting debut novel tells the story of John Segovia, an American historian who teaches English at a small university in Piura, on the desert coast of Peru. The narrative moves between John's obsessive search for his wife's killer and his attempts to build a new life for himself and his infant daughter. The storms of El NiEURo and the ghosts of history that stalk the sands of the Sechura Desert give this novel the sweep of an epic tale. Throughout, Pacazo explores and celebrates the many ways in which we construct the stories we tell of ourselves and those we love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Westland
United States
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
756 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9826318-2-9 (9780982631829)
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Person
Roy Kesey: Roy Kesey is the author of Nothing in the World, winner of the 2005 Bullfight Review Little Book Prize, and Dzanc's original publishing, All Over, a well-received collection of short stories. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, The Kenyon Review and American Short Fiction, among other magazines, as well as in New Sudden Fiction 2006 and the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. He currently lives in Peru with his wife and children.