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Bogotá : a Novel by Grostephan, Alan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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229 pages ; 23 cm In Bogotá, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects him to the gruesome errands demanded by the local paramilitary. Moving in with relatives in a slum in Bogotá, the family tries desperately to achieve the smallest measure of comfort and hope in a world of almost total ruin, wracked by deprivation, fear, and ceaseless violence. Alan Grostephan depicts with startling immediacy an urban landscape of extreme harshness and oppressive instability. The tension between the desperate conditions surrounding his characters and their efforts to hold on to their humanity gives Bogotá a ferocious energy. As Wilfredo and his family fight to stay alive and stay together, their plight emerges as equally enraging and uplifting, constituting a portrait of a society always on the verge of disintegration In Bogota, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects him to the gruesome errands demanded by the local paramilitary. Moving in with relatives in a slum
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Grostephan, Alan
- Publisher
- Evanston, Ill.: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810152304
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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