Return to the Dark Valley av Santiago Gamboa

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<p><b>A kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan novel infused with inky noir.</b></p><p>Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia¿s most exciting writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolan~o, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential.</p><p><i>Return to the Dark Valley</i> tells the stories of four immigrants united by their need to return to their place of origin and exact vengeance. Manuela Beltra¿n, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope¿s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration; Juana and the consul, central characters in Gamboa¿s Night Prayers, who are u