Heridas tiene la noche / The Night Bears Wounds - Paperback

En plena celebraciÃ3n de la boda de su hija, Aloisio Ayarza sufre un ataque de estrÃ(c)s postraumàtico que libera los fantasmas de la terrible guerra civil que azotÃ3 Guatemala entre 1960 y 1996. Y a medida que transcurre la noche, las heridas de su conciencia y su memoria se volveràn a abrir para recordarle que, si bien Ã(c)l no combatiÃ3 con las armas, tampoco es ningà n santo. La guerra es una actividad contagiosa que desata los peores instintos, incluso los de un hombre sencillo transformado en una especie de àngel vengador que aprovechÃ3 el conflicto armado para enterrar en Ã(c)l un crimen de cuya culpa no ha podido liberarse.

Inspirado en hechos reales, Heridas tiene la noche es sin duda el relato màs  civil que la narrativa de ficciÃ3n ha ofrecido hasta hoy sobre la guerra de Guatemala. Su enfoque no es militar, insurgente o eclesiàstico #los tres rostros del conflicto#, sino el de quienes estaban ocupados en tareas menos heroicas, como abrirse paso en la vida, sostener una familia y educar a los hijos, en lugar de asesinar, torturar, secuestrar o sembrar el terror. Heridas tiene la noche es un magistral relato hilvanado a partir de un conjunto de emotivas historias que envuelven y seducen al lector desde el primer pàrrafo de la obra.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

â oeOne thinks and says many foolish things, though that can be fixed. What cannot be fixed is committing them.⠝

In the middle of his daughterâ (TM)s wedding celebration, Aloisio Ayarza suffers a post-traumatic stress attack that unleashes the ghosts of the terrible civil war that ravaged Guatemala between 1960 and 1996. And as the night unfolds, the wounds of his conscience and memory reopen to remind him that although he never fought with weapons, he is no saint either. War is a contagious activity that unleashes the worst instinctsâ "even in a simple man transformed into a kind of avenging angel who took advantage of the armed conflict to bury within it a crime whose guilt has never released him.

Inspired by real events, The Night Bears Wounds is without a doubt the most â oecivilian⠝ account that contemporary fiction has offered to date about the Guatemalan war. Its perspective is neither military, insurgent, nor ecclesiasticalâ "the three faces of the conflictâ "but rather that of those occupied with less heroic tasks: making their way in life, supporting a family, and raising children instead of killing, torturing, kidnapping, or sowing terror. The Night Bears Wounds is a masterful narrative woven from a set of moving stories that envelop and captivate the reader from the very first paragraph.