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  The Armies (Paperback) By (author) Evelio Rosero, Translated by Anne McLean

  

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  Short Description for The ArmiesAn old Colombian man bears witness to the senseless violence engulfing his country in an immensely disturbing book where every detail is true to life.
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  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
  • Published: 20 November 2008
  • Format: Paperback 330 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781847244864 ISBN 10: 1847244866
  • Sales rank: 878,060

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• Ismael is a retired school teacher in a small Colombian village. He gathers oranges, admires beautiful women and has an idyllic everyday life. When the village is ransacked by an anonymous army, he is thrown into the fray and his mental stability collapses. The tragedy which engulfs the inhabitants of this village has indeed become an everyday occurrence in this country. People are kidnapped; killed; they disappear at the hands of unidentified groups such as the armies of the title: Guerillas, Paramilitaries, narcotics traffickers. Instead of describing the reality of an unpredictable violent world, Rosero imitates it - with the dense, confused prose of a man going mad. Instead of portraying violence, he has created a violent novel. In this story, no-one is spared, no one is protected.