Daniel Hahn

Everyone’s a victim

This fine novel shows that the desperate conditions in Mexico today make victims of everyone, including smugglers, drug-dealers and kidnappers

issue 12 January 2019

From the very first pages of Among the Lost, we’re engaged, and compromised. Estela and Epitafio are our main anchors, their experiences and relationship driving the story’s developments, but these magnetic central characters are people-traffickers and kidnappers, capable of startling violence and dehumanising cruelty. And truly, they’re very much in love.

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