Way Far Away

Far Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as " one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades." In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jeremias Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of a rotten hotel and the dwarf who always accompanies her; children who play with sinister soccer balls and observe life from the ruined rooftops; an albino named Bonifacio who appears and disappears like a ghost; the cart driver whose only task is to pick up the mice piling up night after night; the charitable nuns in a nearby convent - these are the characters that converge in a vigil turned nightmare. Jeremias's wanderings reveal a haunting truth, and a possibility of reunion in a place where all is lost, a forever-gaping abyss.