A Santo in the Image of Cristobal Garcia

By Rick Collignon

Book Overview

The gentle-hearted Flavio Montoya returns,
now as the aged scion of his family, still tending
his sister Ramona's fields and wondering how all
of his family could have died before him. When
the mountains surrounding Guadalupe erupt in
flames, the history of the village seems to be set
loose in the smoke. The dead arrive and the silent
speak. When Flavio is accused of starting the fire
that quickly threatens to consume the village, the
disaster becomes one more mystery that he must
fold into his own memory, though he cannot quite
understand any of it.
A Santo in the Image of Crist bal Garc a is a
beautiful, funny, even epic tale of how all history is
finally personal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936071622
• ISBN13: 9781936071623
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Unbridled Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

haunting, calming yet thought provoking

i liked this novel as it is in the same family as marquez and allende. it's beautifully written and casts a lovely slow dark shadow, if you are in this sort of mood. i love the inherent sadness but warmth between and for the characters. with aging parents, it seems revealing how older people review in a non-sequential matter, their relationships, choices, things that they thought mattered with didn't and other subjects. the ghostly spector of good and evil permeates many sections, and implies that human relations carry weighty and far-reaching consequences. while bad behaviour is a given within this community, by individuals who are family members and/or neighbors, going too far is tied up within the notions of greed, magic, forces beyond one's control, and to an extent, race. essentially, i really loved the spell this novel cast and am looking forward to reading the others in the trilogy.