The year of the wind : a novel / Karina Pacheco Medrano ; translated from the Spanish by Mara Faye Lethem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pacheco, Karina, Author.

Contributor:

Lethem, Mara, translator.

Standardized Title:

Aano del viento. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/84c343c6-42a8-7670-663a-c6a2037ebdea

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Peru--History--1980---Fiction.

Peru.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Political fiction.

Historical fiction.

Fiction

Novels

Translations

Novels.

Physical Description:

290 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Nina, a Peruvian writer in Spain on the eve of the pandemic, is pulled back into her nation's fraught history after a fleeting encounter with a woman who is a doppelgeanger of Baarbara, a cousin lost to time. The games, the candor, and the secrets of her youth come alive again, but these memories are tinged with disquiet, and what unfolds takes Nina back to a village nestled in the Andes where she must confront the terrors that stalked Peru in the early 1980s. As she travels from Cusco to Apurimac to uncover Baarbara's fate, Nina begins to weave a new cloth of memory. She learns more about Baarbara's political radicalization and involvement with the Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that instigated a bloody period of political violence in which tens of thousands of mostly indigenous Peruvians disappeared or were killed. In her first novel to be translated into English, Karina Pacheco Medrano explores how war transforms family stories and complicates the distinction between prey and hunter. Part bildungsroman, part detective novel, The Year of the Wind records a significant chapter in Peruvian history rarely considered in the literature of political violence, exploring the anonymous stories marked by horror, loss, bewilderment, and, in some cases, redemption"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2021 as El aano del viento by Editorial Seix Barral, Lima, Peru"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version Pacheco, Karina Year of the wind

ISBN:

9781644453650

1644453657

OCLC:

1478325292

Publisher Number:

90103822308

CIPO000299871