When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep (Paperback, New)

The award-winning debut novel that abrings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel GarcA-a MArquez.a( Katharine Weber, author of "The Little Women")
NA-tido AmAn knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesnat know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When NA-tido loses his father to Alzheimeras disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and NA-tido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing.
Seeking answers, NA-tido travels to Guatemala against his motheras wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of RA-o Roto, he is mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. From his parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpses of the buried history heas aching to know. In a place shrouded in secrets, NA-tido is at once determined and frightened to unearth the unnamed horrors it has seen.
With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- GarcA-aas arrival as a distinctive new voice in fiction.

General

Imprint:	Riverhead Books,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	December 2008
Authors:	Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Dimensions:	202 x 130 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59448-336-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-59448-336-1
Barcode:	9781594483363

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