Liliana Bodoc reinvented epic fantasy, filling it with jungles, indigenous peoples, and Latin American memory

Los días del Venado opens La Saga de los Confines, a trilogy that projects a fascinating, magical, and boundless world. Although each volume is self-contained, this first book offers a complete story that invites readers to continue reading.

It is the story of a people’s struggle for freedom.

At the southern tip of the Fertile Lands lives the people of the “husihuilkes.” Among their most emblematic men is Dulkancellin, a warrior and father of a large family. He is summoned to represent his people at a Council in the distant city of Beleram, where all the civilizations of the continent will gather.

The reason for the council is urgent: ancient codices and magical signs announce the arrival of foreigners from across the sea, and the threat of Misáianes, son of “Death” and embodiment of “Eternal Hatred.”

When war finally breaks out, the inhabitants of the Fertile Lands must defend their land, their culture, and all forms of life they know, in an epic that combines magic, extraordinary beings, and the struggle for possible utopias.

The epic genre of worlds imbued with magic and inhabited by extraordinary beings in search of utopias also includes successful writers in Spanish. One of them is the Argentinian Liliana Bodoc. Raquel Garzón, El País

It would be wrong to see Liliana Bodoc as an epigone of the Tolkian model. We think Days of the Deer is the revelation of a great voice in juvenile literature. Nora Lía Sormani

Liliana Bodoc made use of the epic genre to narrate what she wanted, full of magic and imagination. Daniela Azulay, Infobae

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