In her intriguing first book to be translated into English, Peruvian novelist Pacheco Medrano explores 'what there [is] to be learned from [the] abyss' ... The author, an anthropologist, makes certain to give the official count: 69,280 people killed and disappeared from 1980 to 2000. But this ambitious, intelligent novel casts its spell narrowly, through a trio of women ... A timely callback to Peruvian political bloodletting that blurs the line between victims and perpetrators.
A writer searches for her vanished cousin in The Year of the Wind, Karina Pacheco Medrano’s unforgettable novel about the personal and generational costs of political chaos ... The novel is heartrending as it maps the chasms between childhood innocence and the brutal banality of adulthood. Its accounts of often gendered violence are unflinching but respectful to the lost and scarred ... 'Not all…who are dead want to be found' in The Year of the Wind, a monumental novel about the persistent aftereffects of revolution, resistance, and war.
