The Huayco
No Century for Apologies
Set in Ayahuantu, second poorest country in the mid-continent, No Century for Apologies finds Castle trapped in a battle between corporations for possession of the country’s lone valuable natural resource.
Now on the shortlist for the Hoffer Grand Prize.
This brilliant novel about power and power struggle, centers on Castle, a short man who speaks seven languages but more than that can hear between lines, between breaths, between gunshots. Set in “the second smallest, the second poorest country of the mid-continent,” it is lyrical, intense, and fast moving, with at the center the most compelling and engaging protagonist I have encountered in a long time.