Overview
«-Uno piensa y dice muchas tonterías, aunque eso tiene arreglo. Lo que no lo tiene es cometerlas».
En plena celebración de la boda de su hija, Aloisio Ayarza sufre un ataque de estrés postraumático que libera los fantasmas de la terrible guerra civil que azotó Guatemala entre 1960 y 1996. Y a medida que transcurre la noche, las heridas de su conciencia y su memoria se volverán a abrir para recordarle que, si bien él no combatió con las armas, tampoco es ningún santo. La guerra es una actividad contagiosa que desata los peores instintos, incluso los de un hombre sencillo transformado en una especie de ángel vengador que aprovechó el conflicto armado para enterrar en él un crimen de cuya culpa no ha podido liberarse.
Inspirado en hechos reales, Heridas tiene la noche es sin duda el relato más «civil» que la narrativa de ficción ha ofrecido hasta hoy sobre la guerra de Guatemala. Su enfoque no es militar, insurgente o eclesiástico #los tres rostros del conflicto#, sino el de quienes estaban ocupados en tareas menos heroicas, como abrirse paso en la vida, sostener una familia y educar a los hijos, en lugar de asesinar, torturar, secuestrar o sembrar el terror. Heridas tiene la noche es un magistral relato hilvanado a partir de un conjunto de emotivas historias que envuelven y seducen al lector desde el primer párrafo de la obra.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“One thinks and says many foolish things, though that can be fixed. What cannot be fixed is committing them.”
In the middle of his daughter’s wedding celebration, Aloisio Ayarza suffers a post-traumatic stress attack that unleashes the ghosts of the terrible civil war that ravaged Guatemala between 1960 and 1996. And as the night unfolds, the wounds of his conscience and memory reopen to remind him that although he never fought with weapons, he is no saint either. War is a contagious activity that unleashes the worst instincts—even in a simple man transformed into a kind of avenging angel who took advantage of the armed conflict to bury within it a crime whose guilt has never released him.
Inspired by real events, The Night Bears Wounds is without a doubt the most “civilian” account that contemporary fiction has offered to date about the Guatemalan war. Its perspective is neither military, insurgent, nor ecclesiastical—the three faces of the conflict—but rather that of those occupied with less heroic tasks: making their way in life, supporting a family, and raising children instead of killing, torturing, kidnapping, or sowing terror. The Night Bears Wounds is a masterful narrative woven from a set of moving stories that envelop and captivate the reader from the very first paragraph.
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