The River Beyond the World: A Novel

Luisa Cantu is a girl from a Sierra Madre mountain village. After being impregnated in a fertility ritual of ancient ofigin, she leaves Mexico to work in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas as a housemaid for Mrs. Eddie Hatch, a woman with a strong will and a narrow worldview. Their complex relationship-by turns mystical and pragmnatic, serious and comic-reveals the many ways human beings can wound one another, the nautre of love and sacrifice, and the possibility of forgiveness.

The River Beyond the World is a 1996 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

• Author
• Janet Peery, Songhee Kim

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 304

• Publisher
• Picador

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-16986-2

• EAN
• 9780312169862

• Genres
• fiction, literature, contemporary

• Release date
• 1997