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	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
Original language
English

EL NIÑO

Nadia Bozak

Honey hasn't seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished. Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile locals, she meets Chavez, a young "coyote" or human trafficker, who convinces Honey he knows her mother's whereabouts and agrees to take her there - for a price. As they make their way through the Oro's brutal noman's-land they are tracked by Ocho, a teenage bounty hunter determined to recruit Chavez. And then there is Baez, Marianne's wizened Shepherdcoyote mix, whose death and life intimately intersect with Honey and Chavez's search for Marianne and who tells the story of the Oro Desert as it slowly comes apart.

Told in three distinct voices, El Niño is an intricately constructed and starkly written novel from a bold and inventive new writer.

DER JUNGE
Deutsch von Gregor Runge
[HC Karl Rauch 04/2021]

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Book Published 2014-05-01 by House of Anansi Press

Comments

When El Nino comes together, both on the page and within the reader, the effect is both shocking and powerful, a testimony to both Bozak's skills and daring as a writer.

El Niño is a blazing novel about desperation and courage, survival and death, borders and barriers of all sorts and what it takes to break through. Nadia Bozak's characters are fierce, brave, and haunting. Stylistically brazen and wildly suspenseful, this novel charges and snaps, sinks its teeth in, and doesn't let go. - Lisa Moore, author of Caught and February

This novel is a veiled, near-mythic take on the borderland, combining elements of the Rio Grande, the Yuma Desert and elsewhere to reject the very idea of the border as a fixed line separating two spaces. Read more...

Bozak's precise prose describing the violence, horror and unquenchable thirst that follows all of the characters in their desert journeys (...)unrelentingly tough and tragic.. That, it appears, is what Bozak does and does superbly." Read more...