Not Even the Dead

A claim of justice for the losers of history with echoes of authors as different as Joseph Conrad, Alejo Carpentier, and David Mitchell.

The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars over the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission—to hunt down a renegade Indian called the Father, who preaches a dangerous heresy—he understands that this may be his last chance to carve himself the future he's always dreamed of.

But as he ventures deep into the unexplored lands of the north following the Father's trace, he discovers the footprints of a man who seems to be not only a man but a prophet destined to transform his time and even the times to come.

Not Even the Dead is the story of a persecution that transcends territories and centuries; a path pointing northward, always northward, that is to say, always toward the future, on a hallucinated journey from sixteenth-century New Spain to today's Trump wall.

Old conquerors on horseback and migrants riding the roofs of the Beast, rebellious Indians and peasants waiting patiently for a better world, Mexican revolutionaries who take up their rifles, and women murdered in the desert of Ciudad Juárez all pass by it. They all share the same landscape and the same hope: the arrival of the Father who will bring justice to the oppressed.