The Devil of the Provinces

ISBN: 1566896770

Author: C

Condition: New

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genres conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past and his increasingly bizarre present: the unsolved murder of his brother, a boarding school where girls give birth to strange creatures, a chance encounter with his irrevocably changed first love. A brush with a well-connected acquaintance leads to a biotechnology job offer, and hes gradually drawn into a web of conspiracy. Ultimately, he may be destined to remain in the city hed hoped never to see again-in The Devil of the Provinces, nothing is as it seems.