Santiago Gamboa
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Language
English
Description
Two Colombian siblings struggle to reunite as the clock ticks down in this emotional thriller from an author.
As a boy, Manuel was a dreamer, a lover of literature, and a tagger. His sister, Juana, made a promise to do everything in her power to protect him from the drug- and violence-infested streets of Bogotá. She decided to take him as far from Colombia as possible, and in order to raise the money to do so, she went to work as a high-priced escort...
Author
Language
English
Description
Gritty Central and South American lives from an underground Colombian literary voice.
Santiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolao, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential.
Manuela Beltrn, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through...
Author
Language
English
Description
Investigating a mysterious firefight in Colombia leads a journalist into a world of corrupt churches in this gripping thriller by the author of Necropolis.
When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen anything. Nobody claims to have heard anything. That is, until an...
4) Necropolis
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Language
English
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Description
Santiago Gamboa showcases throughout his first novel Necropolis the talent and inventiveness that have earned him a reputation as one of the leading figures in his generation of Latin American authors.
Upon recovering from a prolonged illness, an author is invited to a literary gathering in Jerusalem that turns out to be a most unusual affair. In the conference rooms of a luxury hotel, as war rages outside, he listens to a series of extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Almadía
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Bogotá, una ciudad infectada por el crimen, tiene en Víctor Silanpa a un periodista que concibe su oficio como sucedáneo del detective privado. Esto lo llevará a comprometerse tanto en el caso del empalado encontrado en las afueras de la ciudad , que deberá involucrarse en un asunto millonario donde hombres poderosos se disputan el derecho a hacer negocios a costa de infringir la ley. Por un lado, están unos terrenos ambicionados por políticos...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Manuela Beltrán, una mujer perseguida por una infancia desgraciada, de la que intenta escapar mediante la poesía y los libros; Tertuliano, un predicador argentino que asegura ser hijo del papa y que, para crear una sociedad armoniosa, está dispuesto a emplear los métodos más extremos; Ferdinand Palacios, un sacerdote colombiano con un oscuro pasado paramilitar que hace examen de sus culpas; Rimbaud, el poeta precoz y genial cuya vida no fue...