Dioses Americanos

Neil Gaiman

In Neil Gaiman’s contemporary fantasy novel American Gods (2001), Shadow Moon, a recently released ex-convict, agrees to work as a bodyguard for the charismatic and mysterious Mr. Wednesday. He soon discovers that his new boss is actually an ancient Norse deity who travels across America recruiting gods from old mythologies—now weakened by forgetting—to wage war against the country’s “new” divinities: technology, media, and consumption. Throughout a journey through highways, motels, and mythical corners of the American heartland, Shadow finds himself caught between rival supernatural forces as he questions identity, faith, and the power of stories in modern culture.