Books set in Colombia (68)
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Song of the Flies : An Account of the Events by Maria Mercedes Carranza EN
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Canto de las Moscas (Song of the Flies), by the late Colombian poet María Mercedes Carranza, was published for the first time in 1997, following a decade marked by extremely high levels of violence in Colombia. At this point the country had already endured nearly half a century of armed struggle between government and rebel groups, and had more recently experienced the emergence of paramilitary forces and warring drug lords. Carranza wrote these twenty-four poems, each bearing the name of a town or city that had been the site of large-scale violence, as a sort of chronicle and commemoration of... continue
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Ştiri despre o răpire by Gabriel García Márquez RO
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez abordează istoria actuală a Columbiei, relatând sechestrarea a zece jurnalişti din ordinul lui Pablo Escobar, şeful cartelului de la Medellin. Faptele au loc într-un climat de puternice tensiuni sociale, marcat de ascensiunea traficanţilor de droguri. Cu măiestria sa narativă inconfundabilă, Garcia Marquez transformă un reportaj într-un roman-cronică dinamic şi documentat, care reflectă contradicţiile unei societăţi distruse de cel mai dăunator drog: puterea oferită de banii prea uşor obţinuţi.
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Sto lat samotności by Gabriel García Márquez PL
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Czego powinniśmy się nauczyć ze Sto lat samotności, przedstawiciela realizmu magicznego? Dowiedz się wszystkiego, co musisz wiedzieć o tym dziele w kompletnym i szczegółowym raporcie książkowym. W tej książeczce znajdziesz w szczególności : - Pełne streszczenie - Przedstawienie głównych bohaterów, takich jak José Arcadio Buendia i Ursula Iguarán - Analizę specyfiki utworu: Realizm magiczny, czas cykliczny i motyw samotności Analiza referencyjna pozwalająca szybko zrozumieć sens utworu.
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Száz év magány by Gabriel García Márquez HU
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Latin-Amerika nemcsak leghíresebb, de egyben legreprezentatívabb regényének színhelye Macondó, egy képzeletbeli, szinte meseszerű városka az őserdők mélyén, ahol a Buendíák évszázados történetét kísérhetjük figyelemmel. A városka előbb felvirágzik, majd elpusztul, de a Buendíák sorsa lényegében változatlan marad: gazdagon vagy nyomorral küzdve egyaránt a társtalanság, az egyhangúság ellen lázadnak, amelyből a család minden tagja csak egy kivezető utat talál: a szenvedély és a szerelem megváltó lehetőségét. Az eposzként hömpölygő mesében végül kipusztulnak ugyan a Buendíák, kihal a család, de a... continue
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Tales From the Town of Widows by James Canon EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the ... continue
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The Bitch by Pilar Quintana EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up,' as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the villagers, with storms - both meteorological and emotional - lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this poignant exploration or the many meanings of motherhood and love.
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The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account . . .of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón . . .
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds : A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. “Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia... continue
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The Queen of the Valley : A Spellbinding Historical Novel Based on True History by Lorena Hughes EN
Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
“An engrossing, suspenseful family saga.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana on The Spanish Daughter Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush, yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning Ecuadorian American author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers – a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun – into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. “Engaging. For fans of historical fiction and ... continue
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The Roots of the Guava Tree : Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia by Sonia Daccarett EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country. Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s. When she asks her parents questions about their family’s ethnicity and religion they answer evasively, defining their family religion and ethnicity as “nothing.” Grandparents and family members who speak Yiddish, Hebrew, and... continue