Year of publication:
2021Pages:
128Binding:
RusticThree Crosses is the honest and stark story of a country riddled with drug trafficking and violence. Each of the three protagonists of this book carries with them the cross of guilt, fear, ignorance and death. Lúa is a girl who grows up without parents playing in the clandestine grave that used to be her grandmother's cellar, living with the dead. Estela, Lúa's grandmother, lives with her alcoholism and her secrets. El Ponzoña, a hitman for the drug trafficker, lives perpetually tormented by his escape and the smell of his murders. With Three Crosses, Alejandro Paniagua marks the intimate geography of violence, the one we experience daily and inhabits us, with the precision of a sniper rifle. Jacqueline Santos
