The Armies
Winner of the Premio Tusquets Editores 2006 and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009
(Sprache: Englisch)
Ismael is a retired school teacher in a small Colombian village. He gathers oranges, admires beautiful women and has an idyllic everyday life. When the village is ransacked by an anonymous army, he is thrown into the fray and his mental stability collapses.
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Ismael is a retired school teacher in a small Colombian village. He gathers oranges, admires beautiful women and has an idyllic everyday life. When the village is ransacked by an anonymous army, he is thrown into the fray and his mental stability collapses.
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In the village of San José in the remote mountains of Colombia, retired teacher Ismael spends his days gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her orchard. It is a languid existence, pierced by his wife's scolding, which induces in him the furtive guilt of an aging voyeur.Out walking one day, Ismael and his wife lose sight of each other. The old man is fearful, for San José has random kidnappings in its past. Soon, more people begin to go missing, and then bursts of gunfire can be heard in the distance. As the attacks grow steadily more brutal, Ismael finds himself caught in the crossfire; an old man battered by a reality he no longer understands. This is a novel with no easy solutions, in which no-one is spared, no-one is protected.
Autoren-Porträt von Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero studied Social Communication in the Externado University of Colombia. In 2006 he was awarded the Tusquets National Prize for Literature in Colombia for his novel The Armies, which was also the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Evelio Rosero
- 2008, 330 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 21,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Anne McLean
- Verlag: MacLehose Press
- ISBN-10: 1847244866
- ISBN-13: 9781847244864
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.06.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
...a timeless epic...which intends to bear witness to the madness of a country adrift in the crossfire - El Pais El Pais
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