Unseen: (Tales from La Paz) - Paperback

by Gonzalo Araoz (Author)

La Paz is not a city.

It is a wound.

In Unseen (Tales from La Paz), Gonzalo Araoz weaves a haunting literary portrait of a city that breathes, remembers, and reshapes those who move within it.

Across a cycle of interconnected narratives, figures emerge and dissolve at the edges of visibility: a philosopher absorbed by the mountains, a man whose body leaks colour into the streets, artists and wanderers claimed by memory, and a consciousness that slips from one self into another.

Rooted in Andean cosmology, urban folklore, and lived anthropology, Unseen blurs the boundaries between body and landscape, past and present, life and afterlife. Mountains become ancestors. Streets behave like veins. The city itself becomes a living organism.

Written in precise, poetic prose, this is literary fiction driven by atmosphere and resonance rather than plot, an immersive exploration of identity, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape who we become.