When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　The award-winning debut novel that “brings to mind the
atmosphere and tension of Gabriel García Márquez.”( Katharine
Weber, author of The Little Women)　　
　　Nítido Amán knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn’t know
why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents,
they never talked about it. When Nítido loses his father to
Alzheimer’s disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly
silent and Nítido realizes that his links to the past are
disappearing.
　　　　Seeking answers, Nítido travels to Guatemala against his
mother’s wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of Río Roto, he
is mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. From
his parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpses
of the buried history he’s aching to know. In a place shrouded in
secrets, Nítido is at once determined and frightened to unearth the
unnamed horrors it has seen.　　
　　With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- García’s
arrival as a distinctive new voice in fiction.
　　　　

　　Born in Boston, Sylvia Sellers-García grew up in the
United States and Central America. A graduate of Brown and a
Marshall Scholar at Oxford, she’s worked at Harper’s and The
New Yorker. Her fiction has been published in
StoryQuarterly. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American
History at UC Berkeley.