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R?o Muerto - Paperback

by Ricardo Silva Romero
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ricardo Silva Romero, Victor Meadowcroft (Translator)Publish date:02/18/25Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:World EditionsISBN-13:9781642861457ISBN-10:1642861456UPC:9781642861457Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, CrimeBook Topic:ColombiaSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCM7FQPYV7
By 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.

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:World EditionsISBN-13:9781642861457ISBN-10:1642861456UPC:9781642861457Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, CrimeBook Topic:ColombiaSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCM7FQPYV7
Ricardo 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 Bogot?39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America. R?o Muerto is Silva Romero's first book to be published in English.

Victor Meadowcroft is a translator 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-Lu?s in Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (co-translation with Margaret Jull Costa, Dedalus Books, 2018) and To?o 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 Sof?a Spanish Institute of Translation Prize in the same year. His translation of Natalia Garc?a 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 Incl?n.


Publisher: World Editions

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Ricardo Silva Romero, Victor Meadowcroft (Translator)

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Ricardo Silva Romero

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