La La virgen de los sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo

La La virgen de los sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo

La Virgen de los sicarios es el mas bello y delirante canto de amor y de perdición que nos ha dado desde hace mucho la literature

Le Figaro litteraire

En el resquebrajamiento de una sociedad que ha cortado con sus valores y su pasado, en que los asesinos contratados o sicarios son niños, y en que la impunidad es la norma y la violencia el aire que se respira, por las atestadas calles de Medellin, entre una multitud maldiciente de desempleados y mendigos, de ladrones y atracadores, vendedores ambulantes y fumadores de basuco, van el narrador loco o lucido y su amante, un adolescente asesino, tratando de ponerle remedio por las malas a lo que no lo tiene.

Cuando ya no queda sino rezar y rociar con agua bendita las balas, la iglesita perdida de Maria Auxiliadora en el pueblo de Sabaneta se vuelve un santuario de peregrinacion de los sicarios y a la vez una referencia para las paginas alucinadas de esta novela.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Our Lady of the Assassins is the most beautiful, delirious tribute to love and loss that literature has given us in a long while."

-Le Figaro littéraire

In the weakening of a society that has broken with its values and its past, in which hired assassins and hitmen are children, and in which impunity is the norm and violence the air that is breathed, through the crowded streets of Medellín, in a teeming crowd of the unemployed and panhandlers, of thieves and bandits, street vendors and cokeheads, walk the crazy (or lucid) narrator and his lover, a killer teenager, trying to make amends for one wrong with another. When nothing is left but to pray and sprinkle the bullets with holy water, the tiny church of María Auxiliadora in the town of Sabaneta becomes a sanctuary for hitmen pilgrims and at the same time a focal point for this amazing novel.

Fernando Vallejo was born in the Colombian city of Medelln. He studied philosophy and literature in universities in Bogotá, as well as film direction at Rome's Centro Experimental de Cinematografa. He spent a large part of his life in Mexico, where he directed three films and wrote all of his books, some of which have been translated into other languages. The great love of his life is animals, and the only reason he exists is to defend them. El ro del tiempo (1999), a pentalogo comprised of Los dás azules (1985), El fuego secreto (1987), Los caminos a Roma (1988), Aos de indulgencia (1989), and Entre fantasmas (Alfaguara, 1993), as well as the novels La Virgen de los sicarios (Alfaguara, 1994), El desbarrancadero (Alf

Biografas and the essays La tautologa darwinista y otros ensayos (Taurus, 2002), Manualito de imposturologa fsica (Taurus, 2005), and La puta de Babilonia (2007) are among his works. Perorata (Alfaguara, 2013) contains a collection of his periodic columns, speeches, and conferences.

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ISBN 13	9786073156226
ISBN 10	6073156227
Title	La La virgen de los sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins
Author	Fernando Vallejo
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Year published	2017-11-28
Number of pages	136
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