The Jaguar's Children: The remarkable novel from the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize
Aug 2024 · Hachette UK
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FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHER
The Jaguar's Children will be read for a long time to come. It is a major social novel'
PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son
'A large, ambitious novel'
VANCOUVER SUN
'Unforgettable . . . a bold, heartbreaking novel'
TORONTO STAR
'This is what novels can do - illuminate shadowed lives, enable us to contemplate our own depths of kindness, challenge our beliefs about fate'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Somewhere north of the US border, Héctor is trapped. The empty water truck, where he is hidden with fourteen other desperate people, has broken down. The exit is sealed and the coyotes seem to have vanished.
His friend César has lost consciousness but his phone still has a little battery. With it, Héctor calls and messages 'AnniMac' - the only saved American number. He begs for help, explains their dangerous journey and gradually tells their story, from rural Oaxaca to the fractured city to the distant promise of a safe future in America.
As hours turn to days, Héctor waits for a response and fights to hold on to hope. Suspenseful and fiercely compassionate, The Jaguar's Children is a cry to be heard and a defiant reminder of the human will to live.
PRAISE FOR JOHN VAILLANT'S FIRE WEATHER
'Impossible to put down'
CAL FLYN, Sunday Times
'Superb and terrifying'
KATHERINE RUNDELL, Guardian
'A must-read'
NICK RENNISON, Daily Mail
The Jaguar's Children will be read for a long time to come. It is a major social novel'
PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son
'A large, ambitious novel'
VANCOUVER SUN
'Unforgettable . . . a bold, heartbreaking novel'
TORONTO STAR
'This is what novels can do - illuminate shadowed lives, enable us to contemplate our own depths of kindness, challenge our beliefs about fate'
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Somewhere north of the US border, Héctor is trapped. The empty water truck, where he is hidden with fourteen other desperate people, has broken down. The exit is sealed and the coyotes seem to have vanished.
His friend César has lost consciousness but his phone still has a little battery. With it, Héctor calls and messages 'AnniMac' - the only saved American number. He begs for help, explains their dangerous journey and gradually tells their story, from rural Oaxaca to the fractured city to the distant promise of a safe future in America.
As hours turn to days, Héctor waits for a response and fights to hold on to hope. Suspenseful and fiercely compassionate, The Jaguar's Children is a cry to be heard and a defiant reminder of the human will to live.
PRAISE FOR JOHN VAILLANT'S FIRE WEATHER
'Impossible to put down'
CAL FLYN, Sunday Times
'Superb and terrifying'
KATHERINE RUNDELL, Guardian
'A must-read'
NICK RENNISON, Daily Mail
About the author
John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General's Award for non-fiction. His second, The Tiger, was an international bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages, and The Jaguar's Children, his first work of fiction, was a finalist for the Canadian Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Fire Weather, won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, and was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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