Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
1961. Elliot Mercer is twenty-three, wealthy, and certain he is about to matter. He travels a tidal black river into the last blank space on the map, to document a people the outside world has never touched - and he records everything: the journal, the camera, the smell of the water, the sound of a country that never falls silent.The record is all that comes back.At first it is the diary of a young man in love with his own adventure. Then the dread begins to compound: a count that will not hold, a word he is certain he has translated, a village that was expecting him. By the time the river takes his boat, Elliot can no longer tell what is fever and what is the country itself, patiently closing its hand.Some places do not want to be found. This one has been waiting a very long time for someone to come looking.A patient, literate, deeply personal horror - the kind of fear that expands in silence long after the last page is turned.
