Feast of the innocents
Rosero Diago, Evelio, 1958-2015
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Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso López, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simón Bolívar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal. In Pasto, South Colombia, where the good doctor plies his trade, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents is dawning. What better day to commission a float for the Black and White Carnival that will explode the myth of El Libertador once and for all? One that will lay bare the massacres, betrayals and countless deflowerings that history has forgotten. But in Colombia you question the founding fables at your peril. At the frenzied peak of the festivities, drunk on a river of arguardiente, Doctor Justo will discover that this year the joke might just be on him.
Main title:
Feast of the innocents / Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean & Anna Milsom.
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Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2015.
Collation:
283 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781848662322 (pbk)9781848662315 (ebook)
Dewey class:
863.7
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
1432458
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