<p><b>Where there was fire, ashes remain . . .</b><br><br><b>Costa Rica, 1968.</b><br><br>A deadly fire rips through the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation, destroying all evidence of a massive cover-up.<br><br>That same night, Teresa Cepeda Valverde&rsquo;s mother is murdered, and her husband vanishes into the darkness.

<br><br>Decades later, as a hurricane twists through the streets of Barrio Ávila, Teresa&rsquo;s estranged daughter Lyra begins to piece together the mysteries lost in the blaze. In her desire to find the truth of her own family's rupture, she uncovers a web of devastating betrayals, stoked by machismo, jealousy and greed.<br><br><b>&lsquo;A haunting, operatic saga of family, history and place.

. . An utterly original, unforgettable tale of family that will sear a place in the reader's soul&rsquo; - Xochitl Gonzalez, bestselling author of <i>Olga Dies Dreaming</i></b><br><br><b><i>&lsquo;</i>An ambitious debut novel .

. . The combination of legend and dream sequences, characters spellbound by hallucinations, toxic odours and huge cane toads, adds to the sense of a society ill at ease with nature and itself&rsquo; - </b><i><b>Times Literary Supplement</b></i></p>


Format Häftad Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Pan Macmillan Utgivningsdatum 2024-09-05 ISBN 9781035041381