Premise as Protagonist in “A Luminous Republic” – Chicago Review of Books
[ad_1] The protagonist of Andrés Barba’s novel A Luminous Republic is its premise: thirty-two mendicant children appear in the city of San Cristóbal, make the local denizens uneasy, speak in an unintelligible language, commit acts of seemingly random violence, disappear into the jungle, and eventually lose their lives. If this sounds like a spoiler, rest … Read more