Canción

On a cold January morning in 1967, in the middle of the Guatemalan civil war, a Jewish and Lebanese businessman is kidnapped in a dead end in the capital. Nobody ignores that Guatemala is a surreal country, he had affirmed years before. A narrator named Eduardo Halfon will have to travel to Japan, and revisit his childhood in the Guatemala of the warlike seventies, and go to a mysterious meeting in a dark and lumpen bar, to finally elucidate the details of his life and kidnapping. a man who was also called Eduardo Halfon, and who was his grandfather. In this new link in his fascinating literary project, the Guatemalan author delves into the brutal and complex recent history of his country, in which it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between victims and executioners. He thus adds an important piece to his subtle exploration of the origins and mechanisms of identity with which he has managed to build an unmistakable literary universe.