cover image of the book Way Far Away

Rosero’s prose, translated with lyricism by McLean and Meadowcroft, conveys the characters’ horrifying human nature with aplomb.

Publishers Weekly

A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia’s most influential living novelists

Available Mar, 05 2024

Way Far Away

Fictionby Evelio Rosero

Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean and Victor Meadowcroft

Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero’s ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as “one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades.” In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jeremías Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of a rotten hotel and the dwarf who always accompanies her; children who play with sinister soccer balls and observe life from the ruined rooftops; an albino named Bonifacio who appears and disappears like a ghost; the cart driver whose only task is to pick up the mice piling up night after night; the charitable nuns in a nearby convent—these are the characters that converge in a vigil turned nightmare. Jeremías’s wanderings reveal a haunting truth, and a possibility of reunion in a place where all is lost, a forever-gaping abyss.

Paperback(published Mar, 05 2024)

ISBN
9780811238076
Price US
13.95
Trim Size
5x8
Page Count
96pp

Ebook

ISBN
9780811238083
Portrait of Evelio Rosero

Evelio Rosero

Contemporary Colombian novelist

Rosero’s prose, translated with lyricism by McLean and Meadowcroft, conveys the characters’ horrifying human nature with aplomb.

Publishers Weekly

Rosero affirms unashamedly that literature can and should change social reality.

Antonio Ungar, BOMB

Evelio Rosero is one of the most important and innovative Colombian writers working today.

Julianne Pachico, author of The Lucky Ones