Хуан Гомес Барсена — новинки

A claim of justice for the losers of history with echoes of authors as different as Joseph Conrad, Alejo Carpentier, and David Mitchell.

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.

En 1904 dos jóvenes peruanos, ansiosos de conseguir cartas firmadas de su idolatrado Juan Ramón Jiménez, deciden escribir al poeta fingiendo ser una muchacha llamada Georgina Hübner. El resultado de esta bien documentada broma literaria fue una larga correspondencia que culminaría con el enamoramiento de Juan Ramón por el fantasma limeño, pasión cuyo trágico final el propio poeta recogería en su hermoso Carta a Georgina Hübner en el cielo de Lima, publicado en su libro Laberinto (1913). Basándose en esta anécdota histórica, Juan Gómez Bárcena propone una imaginativa recreación del episodio. En sus páginas el lector recorrerá el Perú finisecular, desde las buhardillas de la falsa bohemia aristocrática hasta los prostíbulos del lumpen y el pavimento sobre el que caen los primeros mártires obreros, en una ambientación rigurosa que se nos presenta siempre desde una óptica moderna. Y poco a poco asistiremos también al nacimiento de la musa Georgina, que despertará pasiones a este y al otro lado del Atlántico, hasta acabar convirtiéndose en la auténtica protagonista de la novela.