TY - BOOK AU - Perla Suez AU - Rhonda Dahl Buchanan(tr.) TI - DEVIL'S COUNTRY SN - 9781945680335 U1 - F PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - White Pine Press KW - Fiction KW - Latin American Fiction N1 - This novel unravels a tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, a fourteen year-old girl named Lum Hué, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother, and sole survivor of the massacre of her village by five white soldiers. With a minimalist prose that has become the trademark of Suez’s narrative fiction, the novel unfolds at a vertiginous pace. A recurring theme in Suez’s fiction is authoritarianism, specifically the imposition of power over the weak and defenseless. A fan of Quentin Tarantino films, Suez refers to The Devil’s Country as her Patagonian Western ER -