Rosa Cuchillo

This novel takes place in two worlds: the world of visible reality that everyone knows, and on the other side, the world of death. The stories narrated in these pages are woven from both. One of them is that of a fratricidal and atrocious war, set in Ayacucho and rooted in Peru's recent history. The other is mythical and based on the Andean worldview. It tells the pilgrimage of Rosa Cuchillo through the afterlife, guided by a small black dog. A deep concern ties her to the earth: the uncertain fate of her son, Liborio, who was recruited by the subversive movement, in which the young man believed he saw the awakening of Inkarri, but in the course of which he gradually discovers that his leaders think and feel in ways more similar to those of their adversaries' leaders, the mistis, than to himself and his own people.