Description
1971. The small American town of Camel City is shaken when the heiress to a billionaire empire disappears from her room in an exclusive boarding school for young girls. Her neighbor down the hall, a Mexican named Rosario Navarro, could be involved. While the political climate rarefies, the police follow clues increasingly ominous.
1973. In Sinaloa, law professor Bernardo Ayala tries to dissuade his students from enlisting in the ranks of the Liga 23 de Septiembre, a guerilla organization that views weapons as the only possible future in the face of an oppressive State. Forty years later, following an unfulfilled yearning to have children, a young married couple crosses paths with Mama Flor, an enigmatic midwife who begs them to help her find her missing daughter.
Unknown Blood is a novel where few things are as they seem, the reading of which encourages us to reframe our ideas about identity and legality.
Author: Vicente Alfonso
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.37h x 5.83w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9786073822008
ISBN10: 6073822006
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Mexico
About the Author
Vicente Alfonso (Torreón, 1977) Proveniente de una familia de mineros y educado por jesuitas, es autor de las novelas Huesos de San Lorenzo (traducida al alemán, italiano, griego y turco), Partitura para mujer muerta y La sangre desconocida, así como del libro de crónicas A la orilla de la carretera. Ha recibido múltiples premios nacionales e internacionales, entre ellos el Premio Internacional de Novela Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, el Premio Bellas Artes de Crónica Literaria Carlos Montemayor, el Premio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Ciudades de Paz, el Premio Nacional de Novela Élmer Mendoza y el Premio Nacional de Novela Negra Una Vuelta de Tuerca. En 2021 obtuvo mención honorífica en el Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska. Ha sido becario de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas, de la Casa-Estudio Cien años de Soledad y del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México.