Lawrence Thornton

Malone, a close friend of writer Joseph Conrad, is astonished to see his life stories made into an acclaimed sea adventure series, and becomes obsessed with finding Conrad's final manuscript.

For more than ten years, Dolores Masson has joined the women who march each Thursday in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo in memory of los desaparecidos, the disappeared - the legions of men, women, and children who vanished without a trace at the hands of the generals during Argentina's Dirty War. And every Thursday night, she has visited the house where Carlos Rueda and his daughter, Teresa, sometimes offer mystical visions that locate these lost loved ones. Dolores has nearly moved past hope when Teresa at last utters the whereabouts of those she has waited so long to find: the two infant grandsons who disappeared when their mother was abducted. This single vision sets in motion an inexorable chain of events in which Dolores will find the boys, now teenagers, who have no memory of her or their true parents; in which the general who arranged their abduction will find his world imploding; in which the only parents the boys have ever known will be engulfed by suspicion, hatred, and remorse; and in which Dolores will at last begin to make peace with the acute and unbearable memories that live within her, in her blue archives.

In Naming the Spirits, Lawrence Thornton returns to Argentina as the Dirty War is ending to tell the story of a teenage girl who miraculously survives a night in a killing field. When she awakens after an extensive, tormented sleep, she sets out upon a complex and emotional journey. Drifting across the pampas as if guided by benevolent spirits, she arrives in Buenos Aires, at the home of the Cristianis. Disheveled and bearing the scar of a bullet wound on her forehead, she can only utter the words "I am." The Cristianis - whose only daughter disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War - immediately take her in, setting into motion a searing tale of loss and redemption.

An Indian woman named Soledad is forcibly introduced into the white community of Santa Barbara in the 1800s.

Imagining Argentina is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift- In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of "the disappeared." But he cannot "imagine" what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away- imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit