Hijo de hombre

Synopsis of Hijo de hombre

«Hijo de hombre» is the historical novel by Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos, published by Servi Libro in paperback (259 pages, in Spanish).

The action takes place in Paraguay between the War of the Triple Alliance and the Chaco War, with characters from Itapé, Sapukai and the Upper Paraná. Roa Bastos, a volunteer in the Chaco, shows how Bolivia and Paraguay become entangled in a cruel conflict over oil fields that turned out to be nonexistent.

Hijo de hombre opens the Trilogy on the monotheism of power. This work received the Editorial Losada Prize in 1959 and Augusto Roa Bastos won the Cervantes Prize in 1989.

For readers of historical fiction and Latin American literature interested in twentieth-century Paraguayan narrative.