Return to the Dark Valley

Resource Information

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Label

Return to the Dark Valley

Statement of responsibility

Santiago Gamboa ; translated from the Spanish by Howard Curtis

Creator

• Gamboa, Santiago, 1965-

Author

• Gamboa, Santiago, 1965-

Subject

• Colombian fiction
• Latin Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Poets, French -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891 -- Fiction
• Expatriation -- Fiction
• Europe, Western -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction
• Bogotá (Colombia) -- Fiction
• Revenge -- Fiction
• Women poets -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Colombian fiction

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's "dark valley". There is Tertullian, an Argentine who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society. There is Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt. Then there are Juana and 'the consul,' united in a complex relationship based on desire, need, and pain. Finally, there's Arthur Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose dramatic life story plays a central role in this kaleidoscopic tale

Member of

• Volver al oscuro valle

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

• 863.7
• 809.04

Index

no index present

LC call number

PQ8180.17.A395

LC item number

V6513 2017

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult