In the Jaws of the Beasts

"En las fauces de las fieras" brings together three extraordinary stories that address, with bold prose, the ever-relevant theme of political violence in society and the way it intrudes upon the course of each human being's life. Three contexts, three moments in time, three central characters who deliver, in elaborated discourses poured into intense pages like mental labyrinths full of frustrations and hopes, sorrows and joys, premonitions and certainties — that is, worlds pregnant with humanity. A guerrilla fighter on the verge of entering the final battle, an ideologue on the verge of crowning his dream, and a young peasant woman forced to leave by a war that drags her to the land of the dead and from which she emerges transformed. These are the characters with whom the author invites us today — with one foot in the past and another in the future, but none in this vertiginous present — to put forward many interpretations, even contradictory ones, about the worldview with which the author has erected a retablo of complex emotions whose references to reality are not foreign to us. (Excerpt from the introduction).