"The dead do not commit suicide"

Esteban Pavletich manages to build a dramatic and intense novel that has the mountain city of Huánuco as its geographical axis, and the story of Don Apolinario Torrejón who, through his newspaper, was recounting the sufferings and misfortunes of those who were forced to work on the hacienda “El Triunfo”, centre of agricultural exploitation and, at the same time, prison and empire of oppression and impiety, belonging to the leader Aníbal Morand.

Pavletich's work manages to show with genius and social criticism the circumstances in which hundreds, thousands of our brothers lived: Indians, mestizos, cholos, humble and simple people, on the hacienda; at the same time he manages to describe the characteristics of the rough and rugged geographies of Peru, the jungle, the mountains; It also shows some customs of the Andean peoples when playing “jaraijarai”, an indigenous diversion used to liven up wakes; or the detailed descriptions of the coca chewing.

You are invited to recognize and read more about this great Peruvian author!