From the Shadows of Guazapa is a novella of triumph over tragedy. It is comprised of three stories; The Landmine serves as prologue to The Painter, and the two as prologue to The Gateway. The novella is set in assorted locales within a twenty mile radius in central El Salvador and explores themes endemic to El Salvador, and to all of humanity: the true cost of civil war, coming of age, struggles of will, acts of redemption, the power of art to reveal the nature of souls, and the strength of the human spirit to overcome adversity with focused determination. Through the purification of spirit the protagonist achieves by virtue of her painting and artistic mindset, a catharsis for a tragic and conflicted nation is provided.
Once the leash is severed by a young tribal-lone-wolf, his patterned-yet-unplanned existence cycles outward in widening spirals of self-induced disaster, short-lived redemption, and general calamity. Roberto Preza's bold-yet-self-dreprecating narration guides the reader through the reckless life and adventures of his first twenty years as a tribal lone wolf in El Salvador and California, with multiple sojourns in and journeys through Guatemala and Mexico, first as part of a Tom-and-Huck runaway duo and later on solo treks.
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