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Where the North Ends

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Time travel, mysticism, and fairly compaired to The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa and "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar, here is a dramatic story of love, fate, and redemption. Aspiring writer Uriel Romero finds himself mysteriously trapped in the body of Diego, a seventeenth-century Franciscan novice accused of heresy. Unsure whether he's in a dream, a coma, or another dimension, Uriel must navigate Diego's fate: to be sent to New Mexico on a perilous mission to convert the Apaches or else risk the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. As he struggles to understand his new existence, Uriel encounters a cast of colorful characters: a prophetic friar who claims to be his father, an Apache shaman guiding him through the astral plane, a talking mule yearning for the Promised Land, and Alma--his eternal love whose tragic death still haunts him. With echoes of "The Night Face Up" by Julio Cortazar and Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda, this time-travel saga weaves history, mysticism, and existential mystery into a gripping tale of fate, love, and redemption. Will Uriel uncover the truth before time runs out, or is he doomed to be lost between worlds forever?
Hugo Moreno grew up in the border city of Juarez, Mexico, and is the author of Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato. Francisco A. Lomeli is a professor emeritus of Chicana/o studies and Spanish and Portuguese at UC-Santa Barbara. He is the author, coauthor, and coeditor of forty books, including a landmark translation of Alejandro Morales' Barrio on the Edge and Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (UNM Press).
"A tour de force."--Enrique R. Lamadrid, coeditor of Nacion Genizara: Ethnogenesis, Place, and Identity in New Mexico "Mesmerizing."--Francisco A. Lomeli, coeditor of The Writings of Eusebio Chacon
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