Name: Río Muerto
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Author: Ricardo Silva Romero
ISBN: 9781642861457

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ricardo Silva Romero

Translated by

Victor Meadowcroft

Publisher

World Editions

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781642861457

Synopsis "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 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.

Ricardo Silva Romero

(Author)

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Ricardo Silva Romero was born in Bogotá in 1975. He is the author of the novels A Christmas Tale on La Gran Vía, Walkman, Tic, Looks Like It's Going to Rain, End, The Man of a Thousand Names, In Order of Height, Own Goal, Once Upon a Time in Colombia -composed of Romantic Comedy and The Scarecrow-, The Book of Envy, Official History of Love, Everything Will Be Alright, How to Lose Everything (winner of the V Colombian Narrative Library Award) and Dead River. He also published a volume of essays on fiction titled Fictionary, the play Sunday, two collections of stories, two poetry books, and a couple of genre-less books. He is a columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo. www.ricardosilvaromero.com

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