John Segovia is many things - American, corpulent, shambolic, and obsessed with the history of South America. This is what drew him to the city of Piura in the coastal desert of Peru, where every grain of sand teems with stories of Incas and Conquistadors. Here, where past and present intermesh, he thought he'd finally found a life for himself. He met Pilar and he married her; they had a baby girl. But John is now a widower, and a killer - a taxi driver - remains at large. A foreigner in a riotous, mythic city, John must somehow learn to be a father to his infant daughter, to cope with the visceral trauma of loss, and suppress a voracious desire for impossible revenge.
"(A) shaggy-dog tale that eventually--boldly--invites comparison to its great progenitor, "Don Quixote". By and large ("Pacazo") earns its claim to the old knight's inheritance. (A) fresh and powerful reminder of what fiction can accomplish at full length."--John Domini, "Bookforum"
"We think that Kesey, already so respected for his short stories, is going to be known as a major novelist following the publication of this work."--Stephen Elliott, "The Rumpus"
Chosen as the January selection for The Rumpus Book Club
Chosen as the February selection for Newtonville Books First Edition Club
Title: Pacazo
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Roy Kesey
ISBN 13: 9780224094023
ISBN 10: 0224094025
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publication Date: 15/02/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.6
(DC23)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Hardback
Pages: 544
Height: 240mm
Width: 161mm
Thickness: 43mm
Weight: 819g