A soul-stirring odyssey of exile and belonging. Sofía, shaped by her military grandfather’s rigid pride and her Indigenous nanny’s tender wisdom, returns to her crumbling Guatemalan hacienda—a ghost of its former glory—battling AIDS and the weight of a fractured past. Against volcanic landscapes and colonial ruins, her journey unravels the myth of the “American Dream,” exposing its toll on identity and heritage. Lyrical and raw, this novel pulses with resilience, weaving intimate heartbreak with Guatemala’s turbulent history. A haunting tribute to roots, love, and the courage to confront illusions that shatter as easily as they shimmer.
RonyFer González, a literary alchemist turning trauma into transcendent prose, was born in 1956 amid Guatemala City’s kaleidoscope of beauty and turmoil. His life pivoted during the 1980s civil war, when witnessing the military’s atrocities against indigenous communities forced him into exile—a journey that would shape his voice as a chronicler of displacement and resilience. Before fleeing, he worked on colonization projects in El Gran Ixcán, where the clash of idealism and brutality etched into him a fierce solidarity with the marginalized. Now rooted in Montreal with his multigenerational family, González spins tales where Guatemala’s volcanic fervor meets Canada’s frostbitten realities.
RonyFer was born in Guatemala City in 1956.
Author of
《Angel with broken wings》
《Juan’s children 》
《Shared Gloria》
《Genesis 6 in Santa María de Villa Hermosa》
《Memories of good for nothing 》and
《The truth about Amelia 》
and many other titles in Spanish.
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