Tales from the Town of Widows

Tales from the Town of Widows
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9780007241095
ISBN-13 : 0007241097
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tales from the Town of Widows by : James Cañón

Download or read book Tales from the Town of Widows written by James Cañón and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the individual travails of the men and boys - left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, national army officers and civilians - caught amidst these hellish forces. For the first 18 years of his life, the author, James Can, lived in his native Colombia and this pitch-perfect book - darkly comedic, its characters brilliantly etched - is a mighty achievement, an entirely fresh, startling perspective to Colombia's catastrophe where the longest and bloodiest civil war in this hemisphere has raged for 40 years.


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