The arid sky

Resource Information

The work The arid sky represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The arid sky

Creator

• Monge, Emiliano, 1978-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Monge, Emiliano, 1978-

Subject

• Latin America -- Fiction
• Missing children -- Fiction
• Border crossing -- Fiction
• Murder -- Fiction
• Electronic books

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge's The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life. Thundering and inventive, The Arid Sky narrates the signature moments in the life of Germán Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. Monge's roadmap - an escape across borders, the disappearance of a young girl, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, and murder - takes readers on a journey to the core of humankind that posits a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

F

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult