Syn Człowieczy by Augusto Roa Bastos

A sweeping, episodic novel that traces Paraguay’s turbulent 20th-century history through a chorus of linked lives—peasants, soldiers, exiles and intellectuals—whose personal tragedies and acts of resistance illuminate the human cost of tyranny and social injustice; blending lyricism, myth, and documentary detail, it alternates voices and forms to create a collective portrait of memory, identity, sacrifice and the stubborn search for dignity amid political violence.