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Santiago Gamboa is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist born in Colombia. His English language debut Necropolis, published by Europa Editions in 2012, won the Otra Orilla Literary Prize. He is also the author of Night Prayers (Europa Editions, 2016) and Return to the DarkValley (Europa Editions, 2018). Andrea Rosenberg holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. She is the translator of David Jimenez's essays on Asia, Children of the Monsoon, and of Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan-Pablo Escobar, as well as Jorge Franco's Shooting Down Heaven (Europa).
An engrossing thriller set in a modern-day Colombia haunted by the legacy of decades of armed conflict....Gamboa has crafted an effective thriller that thrives on his empathetic imagination. * Shelf Awareness * Gamboa's talent at cultivating intrigue and the extravagant energy of his stories make him compulsive reading. * Times Literary Supplement * An absorbing-at times almost too absorbing-mystery by a notable Colombian author. * Kirkus * A fascinating, brilliantly dark novel. * Le Figaro Magazine * A subtle and energetic thriller; a captivating story in a Colombia that heals its wounds in the best possible way, full of pretty atypical characters. * La Cause Litteraire * For my money there may be no more ambitious, accomplished writer than Gamboa at work in international noir today. Gamboa brings a searching, penetrating style to the prose and unwinds a genuinely compelling and provocative story that interrogates the very nature of violence and truth. * Crime Reads, A most anticipated book *
