Fernando Vallejo, Author Alfaguara $18.95 (197p) ISBN 978-84-204-4292-1
A Colombian-born writer based in Mexico City, Vallejo received considerable worldwide recognition when his last novel, La virgen de los sicarios (Our Lady of the Assasins was made into a film by the acclaimed Barbet Schroeder. Just as dark as La
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Fernando Vallejo, trans. from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert. New Directions, $16.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3851-9
In this intense and mordant autofiction from Vallejo (Our Lady of the Assassins), a middle-aged Colombian writer named Fernando returns from his home in Mexico City to Medellin to spend time with his brother Darío, who is dying from AIDS. The...
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Fernando Vallejo, Author, Paul Hammond, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Paul Hammond. Serpents Tail $13.99 (135p) ISBN 978-1-85242-647-7
This slim, cynical novel by a well-regarded Colombian writer is an unsparing exploration of Medellín, Colombia's second largest city and the infamous stronghold and resting place of drug lord Pablo Escobar. The narrator is a "grammaria
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