"Wholly compelling." --Colm Toibin "A captivating piece of
storytelling."--Boston Globe A new novel from a Spanish literary
star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in
Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into
chaos. San Cristobal was an unremarkable city--small, newly
prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the
children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two
kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language.
At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to
the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then
the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing
complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the
kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos. Narrated by the
social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a
suspenseful, anguished fable that "could be read as Lord of the
Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the
profound originality of his world" (Juan Gabriel Vasquez).
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