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Amado q'eqchí: ¿Dónde está mi espíritu, mi xmuhel? (Spanish Edition) Kindle Edition
Amado q́eqchí es más que una historia romántica; es un hechizo tejido con hilos de erotismo y sensualidad poética, una travesía que desciende a los abismos del deseo y asciende a la cumbre de lo sagrado. En sus páginas habitan aventuras, drama y suspenso, ecos de mitos y leyendas ancestrales, y los secretos más profundos de la cosmovisión maya de Guatemala. Es un umbral hacia el conocimiento, un bálsamo para el espíritu y un viaje que deja en la boca el regusto dulce de lo eterno.
Un autor nunca sabe en qué momento una idea lo tomará por asalto, cuándo la inspiración, como un relámpago furtivo, lo arrojará a la demencia lírica, a ese vértigo donde realidad y ficción se entrelazan en un solo latido. No sabe si huir o aferrarse a ella, si rendirse a la locura creadora o resistir su embrujo. Así nació esta historia, en un delirio de palabras y visiones.
Fue una lectora quien, con voz temblorosa, la resumió en una sola frase: "Amado q́eqchí es una historia dulce". Pero su dulzura es la de la miel que brota entre las grietas de la tragedia, un néctar impregnado de amor, magia ancestral y el eco de antiguas heridas. Es un relato donde la ternura y el erotismo conviven con la sombra de la violencia, la misma que aún se cierne sobre Guatemala y que ha dejado cicatrices imborrables en las comunidades mayas.
Esta novela no es solo un relato de ficción; es un espejo donde se reflejan fragmentos de historias anónimas, ecos de las memorias silenciadas recogidas en La Memoria del Silencio, testimonio del dolor indecible que dejó el conflicto armado en Guatemala. Para los mayas q’eqchíes, sobrevivientes de la represión, la violencia no es solo un recuerdo: es una herida abierta, una crisis irresuelta que persiste en los laberintos de su mundo simbólico y espiritual.
Fue en este conocimiento donde el autor halló la senda para narrar la vida de Amado, atrapado en el "nim rahilal", el sufrimiento interminable que su pueblo arrastra como un peso invisible, la carga de los pecados internalizados, el "maak" que carcome el alma. Inspirado en hechos reales, leyendas ancestrales e historias de ficción, Amado se verá inmerso en la persecución implacable del crimen organizado, enfrentando tribulaciones espirituales y encuentros con lo sobrenatural, experiencias que solo aquellos que han penetrado en la cosmovisión maya pueden comprender. Y así, su destino se forjará en el misterio de lo desconocido, en los pasajes invisibles que separan el mundo de los vivos y los muertos.
¿Qué destino le espera? ¿En qué rincón del tiempo se entretejen sus pasos? Eso, querido lector, lo descubrirás al aventurarte en estas páginas. Su historia se despliega en un peregrinaje que cruza Mazatenango, Alta Verapaz y Petén en Guatemala, el Distrito de Cayo y San Pedro Ambergris en Belice, y la ciudad de Chetumal en Quintana Roo, México. Un viaje físico y espiritual, un sendero marcado por la pasión y la tragedia, por la incertidumbre y el deseo.
—¿A dónde se fue mi espíritu, mi xmuhel? ¿Dónde está? —se pregunta Amado con angustia, mientras lucha por su vida y por el amor de su doncella.
- Reading age12 - 18 years
- LanguageSpanish
- Publication dateJanuary 7, 2021
Product details
- ASIN : B08SHSGXCS
- Publisher : Editorial Letra Minúscula
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : January 7, 2021
- Edition : 2nd
- Language : Spanish
- File size : 734 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 201 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Reading age : 12 - 18 years
- Best Sellers Rank: #65,253 in Fantasy Action & Adventure
- #312,982 in Fantasy (Books)
- #455,523 in Libros en español (Special Features Stores)
About the author

Otto Francisco López Alonso
Memory Made Word
There are authors who pen tales, and there are others whose very existence is a tale begging to be told. Otto Francisco López Alonso falls into this latter breed. Born in Nicaragua and Guatemalan by fate and soul, his journey has been that of a restless wanderer, threading through worlds, exiles, and frontiers—both of flesh and spirit. An economist by trade, schooled in Germany and seasoned with postgraduate studies across distant horizons, he discovered in literature the sole tongue able to cradle memory, love, and strife.
At 48, the whisper of his roots beckoned him. He set out to retrace his father’s saga—a man who faced down the Somoza dictatorship with the blood and blaze of defiance. Yet life, ever the trickster with its whimsical turns, steered him down a different path: the road to recounting his own story. Thus sprang forth Stories and Legacies of Love, a woven autobiography blending his youth in the German Democratic Republic with the dreams and bitter awakenings of the Sandinista Popular Revolution.
Beyond the annals of politics, López Alonso heard the summons of ancient lineage. Amado Q’eqchí (2010), crowned by the ADESCA literary prize, stands as a testament to his dance with Mayan spirituality. For a year, he stood watch over the sacred flames at Kaminal Juyú and Mixco Viejo, gathering in his heart the murmurs of old gods, the crackle of offerings, and the wisdom of shamans. With the blessing of spiritual keepers, he spun that journey into a lyrical novel—the only one to unveil, step by step, the rites of a Mayan ceremony through the eyes of one newly baptized in its mysteries.
In 2018, his quill dipped into the depths of human frailty with Captive Sins, a gut-wrenching tale that plunges into the scarred spirit of a woman caged in Guatemala City’s Santa Teresa prison. With stark truth and poetic grace, López Alonso cast light into the shadowed nooks of a society that turns its gaze away. The foreword to this work flowed from the pen of the celebrated poet Delia Quiñones, bearer of the 2016 Miguel Angel Asturias National Literature Prize.
But when literature rings true, it can become a double-edged sword. In Jade, Beyond the Sky! (2019), the author unraveled the tangled webs binding organized crime to Guatemala’s political might. Drawn from real shadows and the whispered truths of a living witness, the novel held up a mirror too clear for those cloaked in impunity. Death threats soon rained down, snuffing out its debut at the International Book Fair of Guatemala (FILGUA). López Alonso tasted the bitter cost of honesty on his own tongue. He was forced to abandon his soil, his past, his hearth—not from dread of death’s cold grip, but from a fierce resolve to shield his kin. He stood tall against the shameless plunder of the sacred jade stone, against the greed gnawing at his people’s hallowed relics, and the strands of destiny pulled taut against him. The menace loomed close; the specter of peril brushed his skin. So, on a night heavy with silence and stealthy steps, in September 2019, he fled into exile toward Germany. He left his homeland behind, but not his fire. Guatemala lingered, a breath in the fog, yet in every word he writes, his spirit beats on—unbroken.
In 2025, from exile in Germany, López Alonso wove a new masterpiece: Traveling on the Threshold of the Soul. Inspired by the mystical gardens of Berndorf and the stories of the Kurds he encountered along his journey, this novel blends the suspense of a police manhunt with the poetry of eternal love. The figure of Ibrahim Kaya, a Kurdish poet who dances between life and a spiritual realm, embodies the struggle for identity and redemption that the author knows so well. Set against a backdrop of sacred ceremonies and shadows of vengeance, this story is a hymn to the resilience of the human soul, penned with the sensitivity of one who has lived among exiles and found refuge in words. Published at a moment of introspection after years of struggle, Traveling on the Threshold of the Soul invites the reader to cross their own threshold, leaving behind the scars of the past to embrace a destiny of light and mystery.
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