A boy goes to live in the Big Apple where he comes of age and grows up always protected by the maternal cloak until he starts to fight his inner demons and question his origin and his mother?s past. When he finally discovers how and why he was taken to New York and his mother?s reasons to uproot him from his country, he faces the eternal dilemma of humanity between ''being'' and ''must be''. Narrated in the first person, En el nombre del hijo gives no respite or rest to the reader. The language, the realism with which the scenes of the novel are described are such a faithful photograph that the reader can touch, feel and won?t be able to stop reading.