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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: MacLehose Press
  • Published: 04 February 2010
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781906694777 ISBN 10: 190669477X
  • Sales rank: 667,486

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• In a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden. Returning from a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but Ismael cannot leave without his Otilia. He becomes an unwilling witness to the senseless civil war that sweeps through his country with a tragic inevitability. In The Armies Rosero has created a hallucinatory, relentless, captivating narrative often as violent as the events it describes, told by an old man battered by a reality he no longer recognizes.