Return to Puerto Esperanza
Guillermo Munro
In August of 1951, Miguel, at age twenty-one, returns to Puerto Esperanza
after a seven-year absence. As he again encounters his friends, they begin
to narrate the adventures of their adolescence and their pranks as children.
They meet up with Pancholín, the police commander who strives to convince
the inhabitants of Puerto Esperanza of an imminent invasion from the sea by
Korean communists.
Through their reminiscences we learn about the history of this fishing
village, buried in the Great Sonoran Desert between the dunes and the Sea
of Cortez.
Return to Puerto Esperanza is the experience of being born and growing up
in a town saturated with absences; without banks or a church, without
electricity or a water system. Here all remains to be constructed, to be
created, including the very hope its name represents.
The reader can follow closely the achievements and difficulties of the
heroes: Mike and his friend El Güico, who emerge as enthusiastic detectives
in a crime that leads them to discover not only the murderer but also occult
perversions and passions.
With the murder of a man under obscure circumstances, the young men
begin to investigate the death of this mysterious person who came to disturb
the sleepy life of the town.
Puerto Esperanza is a symbolic port, a metaphoric town at the boundary
between desert and sea, between pre-modernity and paradise, sitting on an
austere upland of unexplored sands, an almost virgin place.
Guillermo Munro
In August of 1951, Miguel, at age twenty-one, returns to Puerto Esperanza
after a seven-year absence. As he again encounters his friends, they begin
to narrate the adventures of their adolescence and their pranks as children.
They meet up with Pancholín, the police commander who strives to convince
the inhabitants of Puerto Esperanza of an imminent invasion from the sea by
Korean communists.
Through their reminiscences we learn about the history of this fishing
village, buried in the Great Sonoran Desert between the dunes and the Sea
of Cortez.
Return to Puerto Esperanza is the experience of being born and growing up
in a town saturated with absences; without banks or a church, without
electricity or a water system. Here all remains to be constructed, to be
created, including the very hope its name represents.
The reader can follow closely the achievements and difficulties of the
heroes: Mike and his friend El Güico, who emerge as enthusiastic detectives
in a crime that leads them to discover not only the murderer but also occult
perversions and passions.
With the murder of a man under obscure circumstances, the young men
begin to investigate the death of this mysterious person who came to disturb
the sleepy life of the town.
Puerto Esperanza is a symbolic port, a metaphoric town at the boundary
between desert and sea, between pre-modernity and paradise, sitting on an
austere upland of unexplored sands, an almost virgin place.
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