I have come to bear witness to a great and terrible battle. In those days, the hours passed slowly for the Creatures the Earth Wizards roamed the Maduinas Mountains in search of medicinal plants, and on the long nights in the southern islands it was still common to see the lukus dancing round their tails. It took place in the most remote of times, when the continents had a different shape and the rivers ran a different course. Even if archaeologists dug deep down inside caves buried beneath new civilizations, they would find nothing. It all took place so many Ages ago that not even the echo of a memory of the echo of a memory remains.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.Ī CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.ħ ‘I Can Still Hear the Rain Before You!’ The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. The moral right of Nick Caistor and Lucia Caistor Arendar to be identified as the translators of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.Īll rights reserved. The moral right of Liliana Bodoc to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. Translation copyright © Nick Caistor, Lucia Caistor Arendar 2013 Originally published in Spanish by Grupo Editorial Norma as Published in trade paperback in Great Britain in 2013 by Corvus, The first volume of her most recent saga, Memorias Impuras, was published in 2007 by Planeta/Argentina. Her narrative works, including the fantasy trilogy Los Saga de los Confines, were published by Grupo Editorial Norma and became bestsellers in Latin America.

She took a Modern Literature degree at the National University of Cuyo. Liliana Bodoc was born in Santa Fe in 1958.

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