The Armies

Zusatztext 'Author Evelio Rosero crafts his tale simply but with devastating effect; his clipped prose conveys a sense of utter terror and grief. Winner of the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize! The Armies is a stunning work.' Sunday Business Post. Informationen zum Autor Evelio Rosero studied Social Communication in the Externado University of Colombia. In 2006 he was awarded the Tusquets National Prize for Literature in Colombia for his novel The Armies, which was also the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ANNE MCLEAN has translated works by Hector Abad, Julio Cortázar and Enrique Vila-Matas. She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero, and in 2012 was awarded the Spanish Cross of the Order of Civil Merit. Klappentext An old Colombian man bears witness to the senseless violence engulfing his country in an immensely disturbing book where every detail is true to life.An old Colombian man bears witness to the senseless violence engulfing his country in an immensely disturbing book where every detail is true to life. Zusammenfassung An old Colombian man bears witness to the senseless violence engulfing his country in an immensely disturbing book where every detail is true to life.

Product details

• Authors: Anne McLean, Evelio Rosero, Rosero Evelio
• Assisted by: Anne McLean (Translation), McLean Anne (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9781906694777
• ISBN: 978-1-906694-77-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, Colombia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, War & combat fiction