Canción

By Eduardo Halfon Tenenbaum
Asteroid Editions, 2021

This Guatemalan writer and professor was selected in 2007 by the Hay Festival and Bogotá World Book Capital as one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under 39 years of age.
In 2018 he won the National Literature Prize of his country.

One cold morning in January 1967, in the middle of the Guatemalan civil war, a Jewish and Lebanese merchant is kidnapped in a dead-end street in the capital.

In this book the Guatemalan author delves into the brutal and complex recent history of his country, in which it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between victims and executioners.
Thus, an important piece is added to his subtle exploration of the origins and mechanisms of identity with which he has managed to build an unmistakable literary universe.