Tales From The Town Of Widows & Chronicles From The Land Of Men - Canon James - 2007

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340 pages. Covers have light creasing. Spine has minor lean. Pages are lightly tanned. story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the individual travails of the men and boys - left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, national army officers and civilians - caught amidst these hellish forces. For the first 18 years of his life, the author, James Canon, lived in his native Colombia and this pitch-perfect book - darkly comedic, its characters brilliantly etched - is a mighty achievement, an entirely fresh, startling perspective to Colombia's catastrophe where the longest and bloodiest civil war in this hemisphere has raged for 40 years. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Drama & Sagas; ISBN/EAN: 9780007241095. Inventory No: 15100263. By: Canon James Year: 2007 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: