The Armies (New Directions Paperbook)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811218643 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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. The Armies won the prestigious Tusquets International Prize and has been longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.Anne McLean has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice, as well as the Premio Valle Inclan. Evelio Rosero, born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1958, is the author of several books of fictionnovels and short storiesplays, and poetry. She has translated the works of Javier Cercas
Otilia, Ismail's wife, is ashamed of his peeping and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. We learn that not only gentle, grassy hillsides surround San José but landmines and coca fields. An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree on a red floral quilt. His wife disappears and he must find her. Instead, Ismail wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have I existed these years? I answer myself: up on the wall, peering over. When the armies slowly arrive, the profesor's reveries are gradually taken over by a living hell. The reader is soon engulfed by the violence of Rosero's narrative that is touched not only with a deep sadness, but an extraordinary tenderness.
Mary Whipple said "It is extraordinary, we seem besieged by an army that is invisible.". ("It is extraordinary, we seem besieged by an army that is invisible." Mary Whipple (4.5 stars) Within this short, allegorical book, Evelio Rosero creates a microcosm of Colombian rural life in the fictional community of San Jose, where no one knows who will attack them next--the army, the paramilitaries, the guerrillas, or the drug lords. Though the resid. .5 stars) Within this short, allegorical book, Evelio Rosero creates a microcosm of Colombian rural life in the fictional community of San Jose, where no one knows who will attack them next--the army, the paramilitaries, the guerrillas, or the drug lords. Though the resid. "Innocent bystander-victims in the living hell that is rural Colombia" according to R. M. Peterson. Evelio Rosero (born 1958) is a prolific Colombian novelist, who has won several prestigious awards. THE ARMIES is his most celebrated novel and the only one translated into English. It was written in 2006 and was his thirteenth novel over a span of a quarter century. In a n. For Today David J Read this book. And then tell other people about it. This is what I am trying to accomplish here. It is worthwhile.
If anyone has wondered if there is life in the Colombian novel after magical realism, this is the evidence of the extraordinary power of that country's literature.” (Linda Grant - The Independent)“The Armies is written in a compressed, lean style, which addresses the difficulty of the material with uncompromising clarity. “A disturbing allegory of life during wartime, in which little appears to happen while at the same time entire lives and worlds collapse. Rosero is unflinching.” (Ben Ehrenreich - The Nation)“A scathing indictment of the current political situation in Colombia.”