La tribu maldita

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Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the 19th century as if he'd witnessed it firsthand. He employs words like "caoutchouc," "meerschaums" and "anapestic" as fluently as he uses Gothic tropes. Landor is attacked in the dark woods and in a dark closet. Messengers drive phaetons. There's black magic, phrenology, a profusion of ghosts, even a boat trip through torch-lit mist. But none of it seems musty. Bayard does what all those ads for historical tourist destinations promise: as Landor says at death's door, "the past comes on with all the force of the present."

La lucha por los elementos la decidirá un Simple Humano. Impa, un joven elemental, se verá envuelto en un viaje fortuito en busca de descubrir que está intentando desequilibrar la sinergia entre los elementos. Su viaje le llevará a descubrir seres y zonas del mundo que nunca habría imaginado, así como un conocimiento mayor de los poderes que le han sido otorgados.

Una conmovedora novela protagonizada por tres inolvidables mujeres sureñas en los duros años que precedieron a la Gran Depresión. En la Carolina del Sur de 1924, apenas recuperada de una terrible plaga que ha devastado tanto la tierra como la economía, entre pantanos infestados de caimanes y plantaciones de tabaco, tres mujeres muy distintas unirán sus destinos para luchar contra las injusticias cotidianas que atenazan sus vidas. Gertrude, blanca y pobre, tiene que tomar una decisión trascendental y trágica para no morir a manos de su marido maltratador y salvar a sus hijas del hambre...