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Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. Former director of Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Málaga in Spain. Centroeuropa is his first novel published in North America. More about this author >
Rahul Bery is an award-winning translator from Portuguese and Spanish whose translations include novels by Fernando J. Muñez, Michel Nieva, and David Trueba. He is the recipient of two PEN Translates Awards and his translation of Vicente Luis Mora’s Centroeuropa was longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. More about this author >
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At the dawn of the 19th century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small town far from home to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a farmer. But when Redo begins to dig up the field, the perfectly preserved, frozen corpse of a soldier emerges. The next day, Redo uncovers two more soldiers, dressed in uniforms of an earlier age. And then there are more.
As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it. What will be excavated and what will remain buried?
