Perdido
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- 10,99 €
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- 10,99 €
Descripción editorial
Madewell Brown walked into the village on a hot, dry day in 1946. A solitary black man with one arm longer than the other, he had never found a place for himself. Never, that is, until he had painted his own history on the interior walls of his adobe house in Guadalupe.
Fifty years later, Will Sawyer’s truck runs out of gas, and as he walks that same long road back into town he knows it’s best to keep his eyes on the ground. But he doesn’t understand the town’s long history of displacement or the difficulty of truly fitting in there, until he hears the story of the dead girl found hanging from Las Manos Bridge.
In Perdido, Rick Collignon returns to the same magical village he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya.
In Perdido, Collignon returns to the same magical town he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya. Once again mixing present and past, living and dead, he delivers a forthright and unflinching examination of race, belonging, and identity. With this novel, Collignon shows that a powerful new voice in American fiction has arrived.
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Will Sawyer, the protagonist of this nimble and endearing novel, has lived in the New Mexican town of Guadalupe (the setting of Collington's well-received debut, The Journal of Antonio Montoya) for nearly 20 years. But it will take more than time to turn him into a true local. Take, for instance, the way his interest is piqued by his friend's story about a dead girl found hanging from desolate Las Manos Bridge in 1968. A local would never go off half-cocked, asking nosy questions of the retired policeman who was assigned to the case. Nor would he use his connections to rummage about in the police department's old records. Will's snooping manages to anger the town's most unsavory figures, but he recovers precious little solid information about the poor dead girl (not even her name). He does, however, find out a fair amount about himself and about how alienated he is from his truest desires. In the end, the sense of being adrift in his own life may be his most Guadelupean trait. The town's insane founder, after all, originally named it Perdido (the Spanish word for "lost") because he came to think that "not only was this valley lost but so was everyone in it." Even if a little of this aimlessness rubs off on the story toward its end, setting the denouement curiously adrift, Collington writes with a plain yet evocative (and often moving) style that's sure to appeal to fans of Tony Hillerman and Sherman Alexie. French rights to Editions Metailie; U.K. rights to Fourth Estate; Australian rights to Hodder Headline; and Norwegian rights to Stenersens.
