Vysoko v Andách, ve fiktivní vesnici fiktivní jihoamerické země se chystají oslavy Dne nezávislosti spojené s pohanskými a barbarskými zvyky, které jsou noční můrou lékaře Morena, a to zvláště poté, co ovdověl a stíhají ho výčitky svědomí, že nedokázal svou milovanou ženu Nitu zachránit. Jeho žal a zmatek vystupňuje po roce nález mrtvé mladé ženy s podivným tetováním a připevněnými křídly[...]
In the remote Andean village of Colibrí, a boy discovers what appears to be the body of an angel. But in the face and wounds of the dead, winged woman, Dr. Gregory Moreno sees something even more disturbing: an uncanny resemblance to his beloved late wife… ...
In the remote Andean village of Colibrí, a boy discovers what appears to be the body of an angel. But in the face and wounds of the dead, winged woman, Dr. Gregory Moreno sees something even more disturbing: an uncanny resemblance to his beloved late wife that cannot be mere chance. And in American anthropologist Sophie Lawson, still more echoes of the doctor’s lost love stir…igniting the superstitions of the townspeople, and an elusive killer’s deepest desires and despair.
When Sophie vanishes, her son and Dr. Moreno must navigate the streets, politics, and mysteries of a place where tortured ghosts and strange omens exist side by side with mortals both devout and corrupt. But they may need nothing less than a miracle to save her from sacrifice at the altar of a madman’s twisted passion.
Conjuring shades of Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, or even Neil Gaiman, Grave of Hummingbirds is a mesmerizing novel of dreams and demons, beauty and blood.
