Angel of Galilea - Hardcover

Restrepo, Laura

 
9780609603260: Angel of Galilea
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0609603264 ISBN 13: 9780609603260
Verlag: Crown Publications, 1998

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Hailed by the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende as a major Latin American novelist, a Colombian author presents a modern-day parable, set in her native country, about love, religion, poverty, and politics. 25,000 first printing.

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<b>Laura Restrepo</b> has been very active in politics and journalism throughout Latin America and has lived in Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. She was professor of literature at the National University of Colombia as well as political editor of the weekly magazine Semana. She is the author of several novels, including El Leopardo al Sol (Leopard in the Sun, forthcoming from Crown). She currently lives in Bogotá, Colombia.

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po's prize-winning <b>The Angel of Galilea</b>, newly translated into English, is a sublimely original, utterly contemporary story of love, faith, poverty, and mystery.<br><br>Mona, a Colombian journalist once idealistic and determined to better the world, has been reduced to recounting the vapid pronouncements of newly crowned beauty queens for the tabloid journal that employs her. When her editor sends her to investigate reported sightings of an angel in a barrio on the outskirts of Bogotá, it's just another day's work. The angel craze has arrived late from America, and true to Colombian fashion she will now be expected to "warm up another topic already cold in the U.S."<br> <br>When she arrives in the flooded poorest-of-the-poor barrio of Galilea, she finds the residents in passionate conflict over a strange but beautiful young man. Magnificent, overwhelming, enigmatic, and possessing an undeniable sexual magnetism, he

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Verlag
Crown Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609603264
ISBN 13 
9780609603260
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
193
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