LEIF ENGER

In Minnesota in 1915, the ageing, murderous outlaw, Glendon Hale, meets the one-time successful author, Monte Becket. Glendon has spent years in obscurity, but the guilt he harbours for abandoning his wife, over two decades ago, has finally lured him from hiding. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, he aims to travel back to his past and gain her forgiveness. Sensing Monte''s lack of purpose, he takes him along for the adventure. The two set out for California, journeying from the old West into the new, encountering cowboys and every character from Glendon''s history they pass on the road to his wife''s door. All the while, as they travel by railroad, motorcar and on horseback, they are pursued by the relentless Charles Siringo, an ex-Pinkerton who''s been hunting Glendon for most of his career and is determined to find his man before he succumbs to the illness that plagues him. When the men finally reach their destination, they find more than they imagined and it will still be some time before they find the peace they seek.

UN RÍO DE PAZ, es un relato épico sobre una familia, un padre, Jeremiah Land, y sus tres hijos que viven en una pequeña ciudad de Minnesota, a principios de los años sesenta. El padre trata de educar a sus tres hijos despues de que su mujer le haya abandonado. Los tres hijos son Davy, el mayor, Reuben, el protagonista de la novela, y la hermana pequeña, Swede, una niña con una imaginacion desbordante que escribe poesia e historias de vaqueros.Reuben nos narra en primera persona su historia y la de su familia y los pequeños milagros que ocurren de la mano del padre, milagros llenos de magia, que impresionaran al lector.La vida tranquila de la familia Land queda interrumpida cuando Davy mata a dos intrusos, que entran una noche en casa de la familia.En ese momento se inicia un largo proceso judicial, la huida del joven acusado y el exodo de la familia en su busqueda.A lo largo de su viaje se siguen produciendo hechos afortunados y conocen a una mujer encantadora, Roxanna, que cambiara el destino de la familia.Esta novela esta llena de referencias biblicas y de alusiones a heroes ficticios de los que alimentan su imaginacion los hijos de la familia, pero el LEIF ENGER logra mostrar que los autenticos heroes estan en la vida cotidiana y a nuestro alrededor.

Barnes & Nobles April Book Club PickAn Amazon Top 10 Editors PickA Most Anticipated Book of 2024 from Literary HubSet in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainys private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, I Cheerfully Refuse is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved musician taking to Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved bookselling wife. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amid the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humour, generous strangers and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As his essentially guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy's private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.