Hijo De Dios

Cormac McCarthy's first book in six years is about an unsavory loner named Lester Ballard. Lester is a murderer and a necrophiliac--and yet McCarthy succeeds in painting a sympathetic portrait, seeing him as a "child of God" like anyone else. Lester's brutal descent into violence and madness is horrifyingly described, but McCarthy's prose is as lyrical as ever, and the book ends on a note of redemption. The book (his third novel, published in 1974), is set, like many of his works, in his native eastern Tennessee. This is a Spanish-language verion of the text.