WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2009 In a small
town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher,
spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on
his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. Returning from
a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then
more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the
approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but
Ismael cannot leave without his Otilia. He becomes an unwilling
witness to the senseless civil war that sweeps through his country
with a tragic inevitability. In The Armies Rosero has created a
hallucinatory, relentless, captivating narrative often as violent
as the events it describes, told by an old man battered by a
reality he no longer recognizes.
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