Intense, harrowing, affronting..

Set in warm torn Peru spanning the 1970s to early 2000’s narrated with politics, domestic terrorism, idealism and a country in chaos.

Super hard to follow with the narrator changing almost without warning, and it took me a few pages each time to pick up the threads.

Challenging but totally worth reading to better grasp the Peruvian politics from this period.


Thanks to NetGalley and the Penguin Random House Canada for an ARC of this book in return for an honest review.

This Country is No Longer Yours by Avik Jain Chatlani is a novel covering various perspectives of the events of the political instability and terrorist campaigns in Peru in the late 20th century. The book is written as a series of perspectives of individuals living through these tumultuous events. I found the topic to be very interesting and something that I want to further study. However, the format of the writing made the narrative hard to follow. Some sections of the book are in the 3rd person, some in the first person, and others in the form of letters. The book left me intrigued and wanting to learn more about Peruvian history.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.