Río muerto /
On the outskirts of Belén del Chamí, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomón Palacios is murdered a few steps away from his home. His widow, the courageous and foul-mouthed Hipólita Arenas, completely loses her sanity and confronts the paramilitaries and local politici...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft. |
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New York :
World Editions,
[2025].
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| Summary: | On the outskirts of Belén del Chamí, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomón Palacios is murdered a few steps away from his home. His widow, the courageous and foul-mouthed Hipólita 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 Hipólita 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 Salomón'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. |
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| Item Description: | First published in 2021 by Alfaguarra. |
| Physical Description: | 188 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781642861457 1642861456 |