Why a Booktrail?
2000s- Come to the small and northwestern Peruvian city of Piura where darkness has descended for one man…
Pacazo
What you need to know before your trail
John Segovia is an American teaching in Peru. He’s also a widower with a one year old child since his Peruvian wife Pilar was abducted and attacked and left to die alone in the desert.
John is also a man with a mission – to find and hunt down the man or men who took his wife from him. A man filled with loathing, grief and a host of other emotions with a desperate need to survive and to look after his child.
Just how does a man start such a search and an american in Peru is seen as a stranger, a foreigner so already there are obstacles in his way.
How does a man even start such a task and how dangerous can it be?
Travel Guide
Piura is a city in northwestern Peru. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro founded the first Spanish city in South America, San Miguel de Piura, in 1532. This gave the city its Peruvian nickname of “La Primera Ciudad”-”the first city”.
The main character for one has been named after the famous explorer Juan de Segovia and he (John) is extremely interested in history.
John is a good narrator and guide to Peru since he is a foreigner who loves history and who teaches english at the university in the city. With snippets of Peruvian and Inca history dotted throughout the story, the search for his wife’s killers becomes so much more than this. A story of what he is, what his life was like before his wife died and the ghosts of his past and those of his present too.
This is more than a history and stream of consciousness about life in Peru however, the novel also offers insights into Peruvian customs and food. Apparently if someone hesitates before he says yes to an invitation, he’s politely turning you down.
Just the kind of detail any expat living in Peru needs to know.Oh and what a Pacazo is…..
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