THIS IS THE LATEST NOVEL PUBLISHED BY M. AGUIRRE
HERE IS WHERE TRANSGRESSIVE FICTION MEETS MAGIC REALISM In May 21, 2018 - Following the publication on Amazon of his groundbreaking first book A Bullet in His Forehead , in 2016, Peruvian American author Manuel Aguirre has decided to kick things up a notch with his explosive new novel, Adieu Chimeras (336 pp), currently for sale on amazon.com In his previous novel, A Bullet in His Forehead (also for sale on amazon.com), Manuel Aguirre, who is himself a former officer of the Peruvian Army, narrated the adventures of Second Lieutenant Gerardo Arrieta, at the height of the Cold War, as he fights against drug running, gun trafficking smugglers from Bolivia while battling his own inner demons with the help of an Aimara shaman named Yatiri. This marks the first time in Latin American literary history that a novel about the Kafkaesque intricacies of military life is written from an insider’s point of view. Every previous novel about the role of the military in Lat...