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$12.59The Story
Revelations--and frozen corpses--multiply in a small, European village
"Male, Prussian, hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife."
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small town far from home to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a farmer. But when Redo begins to dig up the field, the perfectly preserved, frozen corpse of a soldier emerges. The next day, Redo uncovers two more soldiers, dressed in uniforms of an earlier age. And then there are more.
As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it. What will be excavated and what will remain buried?
Subtle, subversive, and full of surprises, this ingeniously structured novel heralds a talented writer whose experimentations in style are as dazzling as his humane, spirited story of oppression, erasure, and endurance.
Author: Vicente Luis Mora
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781954276529
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2025
About the Author
Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. Former director of Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Málaga in Spain. Centroeuropa is his first novel to be published in North America.
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Revelations--and frozen corpses--multiply in a small, European village
"Male, Prussian, hussar soldier, frozen. That was the first body I found while digging in the frozen earth to bury my wife."
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, European feudalism is starting to crumble. Newly widowed, Redo Hauptshammer arrives in a small town far from home to claim a plot of arable land and the simple life of a farmer. But when Redo begins to dig up the field, the perfectly preserved, frozen corpse of a soldier emerges. The next day, Redo uncovers two more soldiers, dressed in uniforms of an earlier age. And then there are more.
As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it. What will be excavated and what will remain buried?
Subtle, subversive, and full of surprises, this ingeniously structured novel heralds a talented writer whose experimentations in style are as dazzling as his humane, spirited story of oppression, erasure, and endurance.
Author: Vicente Luis Mora
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781954276529
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 11/10/2025
About the Author
Vicente Luis Mora is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary critic. Former director of Instituto Cervantes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Málaga in Spain. Centroeuropa is his first novel to be published in North America.
