The Untameable

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Goodfellas meets White Fang. By the BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Amores Perros. "An epic tale" Sunday Times Crime Club "A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel" Irish Examiner "Of all the wolves you will see in your life, one alone will be your master." Yukon, Canada's far north. A young man tracks a wolf through the wilderness. The one his grandfather warned him about. In Mexico City, Juan Guillermo has pledged vengeance. For his murdered brother, Carlos. For his parents, sentenced to death by their grief. But in 1960s Mexico justice is sold to the highest bidder, and the Catholic fanatics who killed Carlos are allied to Zunita, a corrupt and influential police commander. If he is to quench his thirst for revenge Juan Guillermo will have to answer his inner call of the wild and discover what links his destiny to a hunter on the other side of America. A gripping coming of age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City's murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada's most remote province. Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne and Jessie Mendez Sayer

Guillermo Arriaga is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. His novels, Escuadron Guillotina (1991), A Sweet Smell to Death (1994), The Buffalo of the Night (1999) and short story collection, Retorno 201, have been translated into eighteen languages. His films include Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and The Burning Plain. He has recently produced the story of Desde Alla, the first Ibero-American film to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In February 2017 he won the Mazatlan Prixe for Literature for The Untameable.

One of the most powerful, intense and original contemporary authors writing in Spanish. * Expres. * Sublime Arriaga. The Untameable consecrates its author as the best contemporary Mexican writer and as an indisputable figure among the writers in the world. -- Gabri Rodenas * Zenda. * An absolutely unique author. A pounding novel. -- Guadalupe Nettel The Untameable is one of the best books I have read. -- Santiago Gamboa The Untameable is showing us once again the mastery of Arriaga as a weaver of parallel stories that converge in the end. It's his personal imprint. -- Alvaro Soto * El Correo * An exuberant celebration of the wildness in both man and nature, this is simultaneously cinematic, literary and compelling, dragging the reader along into a world of corruption and beauty like no other. A genuine event book. -- Maxim Jakubowski * Crime Time * Epic . . . A magnificent beast of a book. * Weekend Sport * An epic tale . . . The screenwriter of such awe-inspiring films as Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel is a genius at making connections between far-flung people and events. * Sunday Times Crime Club * A fast-moving, intriguing and virile novel. Jack London would recognise a call from the wild. -- Josephine Fenton * Irish Examiner. *