The Devil's Country
Published on 14. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-945680-33-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
251 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-33-5 (9781945680335)
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Persons
Perla Suez was born in Cordoba, Argentina, but lived the first fifteen years of her life in Basavilbaso in the province of Entre Rios, a crucial period that informs her narrative fiction. She is a writer and professor of contemporary literature and received a university degree in literature from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. In 2015, her novel El pais del diablo (2014) received the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize. Her works have been translated to English, French, Italian, Serbian, and Turkish.
Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Louisville. She has translated the narrative fiction of the Argentine writers Ana Maria Shua, Perla Suez, Tununa Mercado, and Mempo Giardinelli, and the Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sanchez, among others, and is the author of numerous critical studies on contemporary Latin American writers.
Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Professor of Spanish and the Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Louisville. She has translated the narrative fiction of the Argentine writers Ana Maria Shua, Perla Suez, Tununa Mercado, and Mempo Giardinelli, and the Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sanchez, among others, and is the author of numerous critical studies on contemporary Latin American writers.