The Armies

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3 ediciones

The Armies

Editorial: quercus

ISBN: 978-19-0669-477-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9781906694777

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2010-02-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Armies

Editorial: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-18-4916-431-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9781849164313

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2010-02-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Armies

Editorial: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-18-4724-485-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9781847244857

Tipo de cubierta: Hardcover

Páginas: 1

Fecha de publicación: 2008-11-20

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Armies

Evelio Rosero

Primera publicación: 2008-11-20

In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. Returning from a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but Ismael cannot leave without his Otilia. He becomes an unwilling witness to the senseless civil war that sweeps through his country with a tragic inevitability. In The Armies Rosero has created a hallucinatory, relentless, captivating narrative often as violent as the events it describes, told by an old man battered by a reality he no longer recognizes.