Fathers dead and fathers dying—as well as adult children struggling to leave their fathers’ shadow—shape two recent novels from Colombia. Though one concerns a ...

Héctor Hoyos
Héctor Hoyos is associate professor of Latin American literature at Stanford University. He is the author of the monographs Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (Columbia University Press, 2015) and Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America (Columbia University Press, 2019).