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A chilling allegorical novella by the masterful Colombian writer
who poses timeless questions about violence and subjugation, power
and freedom. Imagining the darkest of power imbalances in a
dystopian world, in which the most vulnerable are held captive and
wherein survival depends on the ability to remain anonymous,
identity is a threat. Those who have everything would revel in the
humiliation of others and identification brings with it the
ultimate punishment. When hiding is no longer possible, the only
choice may be to rebel. More frightening than the dystopia of
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and with elements of the surreal to
rival Kafka's Metamorphosis, Rosero's hypnotic tale builds in
tension to deliver a crippling emotional punch.
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Way Far Away
Anne McLean, Victor Meadowcroft, Evelio Rosero
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Discovery Miles 2 990
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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.
Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients
but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to
prove to the world that the myth of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador,
is a sham and a scandal. In Pasto, south Colombia, where the good
doctor plies his trade, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents is
dawning. A day for pranks, jokes and soakings ... Water bombs,
poisoned empanaditas, ground glass in the hog roast - anything
goes. What better day to commission a float for The Black and White
Carnival that will explode the myth of El Libertador once and for
all? One that will lay bare the massacres, betrayals and countless
deflowerings that history has forgotten. But in Colombia you
question the founding fables at your peril. At the frenzied peak of
the festivities, drunk on a river of arguardiente, Doctor Justo
will discover that this year the joke might just be on him.
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Good Offices (Paperback)
Evelio Rosero; Translated by Anna Milsom, Anne McLean
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Discovery Miles 2 170
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When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's
principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father Matamoros, a
drunkard with an angel's voice whose sung mass is mesmerizing to
all. But Matamoros hides a darker side, and when the church's
residents throw a feast for him he encourages them to lose all
their inhibitions and give free reign to their most Bacchanalian
desires. A satire on the iniquities of the Catholic church in
Colombia, Good Offices is at once comic, surreal and startling, a
novel that will linger long in the mind.
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