Publisher: Serpent's Trail, 1994
Edition: Print
Where I got the book: Strathcona High School Library
Publisher's Summary:
Fernando, the narrator, returns after several decades to his birthplace, Medelin, to find it transformed into Columbia's "capital of hate". A town tottering on the edge of the abyss where taxi drivers are shot dead for refusing to turn down their radio. As he lovingly insults the country's president, its drug barons, priests, communists, sociologists, television and soccer addicts, Fernando cultivates a passion for Alexis, a young hitman from the shanty-towns. The brutal and tender fuse in this first translation of an outstanding voice of Latin American literature.
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