Among the Lost
Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge is a US edition published by Scribe Publications in 2019, featuring 345 pages in English. This novel presents a devastating and surreal exploration of illegal immigration, set against the harsh backdrop of desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle. The narrative unfolds over a single day, depicting the brutal realities faced by trafficked individuals and illegal migrants as they navigate a landscape filled with exploitation and despair.
Readers will encounter the intertwined lives of Estela and Epitafio, who, having grown up in a brutal orphanage, find themselves caught in a cycle of violence and complicity within a system that has long abused them. Their fierce love, born from shared suffering, is tested as they grapple with their roles in a world where hope is extinguished and freedom seems unattainable. This novel delves into themes of psychological trauma and the human cost of migration, offering a poignant reflection on the struggles faced by those yearning for a better life in a land they call El Paraíso.
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A devastating and surreal novel about the defining issue of the 21st century: illegal immigration.
In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalized, illegal migrants are cheated of their money, their dreams, their very names, even as countless others scrabble to cross the border, trying to reach a land they call El Paraíso.
In this grim inferno, a fierce love has blossomed–one that was born in pain and cruelty, and one that will live or die on this day. Estela and Epitafio too were trafficked, they grew together in the brutal orphanage, fell in love, but were ripped apart. They have played an ugly role in the very system that abused them, and done the bidding of the brutal old priest for too long. They have traded in migrants, put children to work as slaves, hacked off limbs and lives without a thought, though they have never forgotten the memory of their own shackles.
Like the immigrants whose hopes they extinguish, they long to be free; free to be together and alone. Here in an unnamed land that could be a Mexico reimagined by Breughel and Dante, on the border between purgatory and inferno, where Paradise is the mouth of hell and cruelty the only currency, lives are spent, bartered and indentured for it. Must all be bankrupt among the lost?
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