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Río Muerto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781642861457)
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xBy one of Colombia's most renowned novelists and reminiscent of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, R?o Muerto by Ricardo Silva Romero tackles the topic of paramilitarism and violence in Colombia when a father of two sons is killed a few steps from his home.
Author: Ricardo Silva Romero
ISBN-10: 1642861456
ISBN-13: 9781642861457
Publisher: World Editions
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
On the outskirts of Bel?n del Cham?, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salom?n Palacios is murdered a few steps away from his home. His widow, the courageous and foul-mouthed Hip?lita Arenas, completely loses her sanity and confronts the paramilitaries and local politicians, challenging them to also kill her and her two fatherless sons. Yet as Hip?lita faces her husband's murderers on her desperate journey, she finds an unexpected calling to stay alive. This poetic and hypnotizing novel, told from the perspective of Salom?n's ghost, denounces the brutal killings of innocent citizens and at the same time celebrates the invisible: imagination, memories, hope, and the connection to afterlife.
Author: Ricardo Silva Romero
ISBN-10: 1642861456
ISBN-13: 9781642861457
Publisher: World Editions
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
By Ricardo Silva Romero
xRicardo Silva Romero is one of Colombia's most beloved writers. He is a prolific novelist, columnist, journalist, screenwriter, and film critic. In 2007 he was selected as one of the Bogotá39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America. Río Muerto is a fearless novel exploring the role of violence in Colombian society from an entirely new perspective. It is Silva Romero's first book to be published in English.
from Spanish and Portuguese and a graduate of the University of East Anglia's
master's program in literary translation. His published translations include
stories by Agustina Bessa-Luís in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers
(co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and Toño the
Infallible by Evelio Rosero (co-translation with Anne McLean, New
Directions, 2022), which was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in 2023
and longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in
the same year. His translation of Natalia García Freire's This World Does
Not Belong to Us was published by World Editions in 2022 and was shortlisted
for the TA First Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán.
from Spanish and Portuguese and a graduate of the University of East Anglia's
master's program in literary translation. His published translations include
stories by Agustina Bessa-Luís in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers
(co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and Toño the
Infallible by Evelio Rosero (co-translation with Anne McLean, New
Directions, 2022), which was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize in 2023
and longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in
the same year. His translation of Natalia García Freire's This World Does
Not Belong to Us was published by World Editions in 2022 and was shortlisted
for the TA First Translation Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán.
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