Not Even the Dead, Katie Whittemore
Not Even the Dead, Katie Whittemore
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Not Even the Dead

Author: Katie Whittemore

Narrator: Andre Bellido

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2024


Synopsis

The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars for the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who's called the Father and who preaches a dangerous heresy, he understands that this may be his last chance to carve himself the future he's always dreamed of. But as he goes deep into the unexplored lands of the north following the Father's trace, he will discover the footprints of a man who seems not only a man, but a prophet destined to transform his time and even the times to come.



Not Even the Dead is the story of a persecution that transcends territories and centuries; a path pointing northward, always northward, that is to say, always toward the future, on a hallucinated journey from the sixteenth century New Spain to today's Trump wall. Old conquerors on horseback and migrants riding the roofs of the Beast, rebellious Indians and peasants waiting patiently for a better world, Mexican revolutionaries who take their rifles and women murdered in the desert of Ciudad Juárez, all pass by it. All of them share the same landscape and the same hope, the arrival of the Father who will bring justice to the oppressed.

Author Bio

Katie Whittemore was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators Conference participant. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Lines, the Arkansas International, the Common Online, Gulf Coast Magazine Online, the Los Angeles Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and InTranslation.

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