Du Mexique au Panama, ce road-movie litteraire traverse un continent, l'Amerique centrale, et nous livre dix-sept instantanes pris a la volee qui donnent leur titre a chaque nouvelle. Ces polaroids ne sont ni des cartes postales ni des photos de voyages, mais de veritables radiographies panoramiques de l'ame humaine. Les portraits de Ricardo, Philippa, Jose, Mark et les autres, tous les autres qui se croiseront parfois sans le savoir au fil des histoires, emeuvent car en zoomant sur le detail ils touchent a l'universel. Le detail, c'est la cartographie de ce coin du globe sur lequel regnent...
Du Mexique au Panama, ce road-movie litteraire traverse un continent, l'Amerique centrale, et nous livre dix-sept instantanes pris a la volee qui donn...
A corpse. A wrongly accused hunter. A crippled painter with an unquenchable thirst for justice. In the year 679 AD, Xhol, a painter, a sculptor...and a cripple, discovers the dead body of a wealthy merchant just returned from a trade expedition to the North. Quickly, Xhol and Thirteen Jaguar, the shrewd high priest, discover that poison has been used. Unwittingly Xhol directs suspicion on an innocent man, One Hunter. He then feels compelled to look for the real killer. Caught in the intrigues plaguing the royal court and sneered at because of his limp, Xhol begins a dangerous quest for truth....
A corpse. A wrongly accused hunter. A crippled painter with an unquenchable thirst for justice. In the year 679 AD, Xhol, a painter, a sculptor...and ...
