35Muertos

"35Muertos is a sprawling, fast-paced novel set in Colombia’s recent past and dealing with the country’s history of an epidemic of violence. I think anyone who enjoys García Márquez would like it.” (Rosalind Harvey)

With elements of historical novel, adventure story, autofiction, thriller and even romantic melodrama, '35Muertos' depicts the Colombia of the last forty years through the misadventures of a loser and all the dozens of people he's ever met. The book is peopled with lost revolutionaries, macho guerrillas, spiteful gang members, paramilitaries who are experts in bolero music, cuckolded drug traffickers, exiles in icy lands, disappeared people and even happy, partying types, and every page seethes with the vitality and tragedy that have always conspired to make up Colombia's appalling history. A novel with dazzling language that will no doubt become one of the benchmarks of new Latin American literature.