Senator Onésimo Sánchez is the protagonist of “Death Constant Beyond Love.” At 42, he is a politician recently diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illness who reads Latin and once studied to be a metallurgical engineer…
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Laura Farina
Laura Farina, a resident of Rosal del Virrey, is nineteen years old and the daughter of Nelson Farina. She is likely mixed-race, as the story describes her mother as Black while not addressing her…
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Nelson Farina
Nelson Farina, the father of Laura Farina, is a criminal who fled from Devil’s Island—where he was imprisoned for murdering his first wife—to Rosal del Virrey. Stashing himself away on a ship with “innocent…
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