Felipe sees bodies in every corner of Santiago, and seeks to match their numbers with the official death toll, arriving at a perfect number with no survivors. As for "Iquila" and "Paloma", they share the memory of a mysterious and cloudy childhood meeting, and a friendship that linked the parents of one of them with the parents of the other, in the past.
The three embark on an unexpected journey to recover the body of Paloma's mother, after she was stuck in Argentina due to volcanic ash.
Through a different and new narrative, Alia Trabuco Theran, in her novel that was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, tells us about the past that has not passed, about the dark family legacy of the children of those who lived under the Pinochet dictatorship, and about confronting the pain that extends across generations.
After Macendall escapes and is pursued, he takes advantage of the strange abilities with which he has been endowed, taking on the appearance of different animals, taking advantage of his talent to move instantly from one place to another, and because of the belief of his contemporaries in him, he encourages with this magic the most dramatic and strange uprisings in history.
A complete mythology remains of Macendal, accompanied by magical chants that are memorized by all the people, and are still sung in Voodoo ceremonies. In this novel, Alejo Carpentier draws inspiration from this mythology from a series of extremely strange events that occurred in Haiti, in a specific era that does not extend to a short human life, and he presents them through the character of “T. Noel,” who finally realizes how a person can find his greatness and his maximum extent. In the kingdom of this world.
There are things that people cannot describe.
There are words that we cannot accept, trivial things that make the only hope of our heart go away, that make our hopes disappointed and thrown away without fulfillment, those wishes that took most of our time to achieve. A few words from them changed the course of our lives, they turned that beautiful dream into a hideous nightmare. That paradise that we imagined was nothing but hell. We were living those dreams with great hope, but we were very disappointed. We were tired and despaired of them, but we will not give up, and we will not let their words and actions affect our dreams. The desires that the heart desires force us to bear them, force us to resist them. We will not break easily, except when our dreams are achieved. We will break because we achieved the desire of our heart after long patience. We will break. We will gather together again. We will be stronger than we were before. Be sure that you can.
