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Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2008

Compartiendo dolor y esperanza
Con esta novela, Fernando Vallejo nos toma con fuerza y nos arrastra al desbarrancadero que forman los últimos días de Darío, hermano del narrador. Con su cuestionable conocimiento médico que bordea en lo ilegal y antiético, el amor por Darío lo impulsa a inyectarle un álito de esperanza a quien parece no tenerlo, intentanto irremediablemente remediar lo irremediable. Su lenguaje crudo, directo e ...

El Fuego Secreto
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2005

This second part of Vallejo?s five autobiographical novels, is a drastic exercise against every socially established norm. The novel recreates the life of an antihero from a low class in Medellín in the Sixties. A narrator who describes himself as old and bitter recounts a vital trip through the forbidden: the rough gay and drug-filled lifestyles of those times. Description in Spanish: Un libro alucinante. Un desafío a la vez que una ...

Mi Hermano El Alcalde

2 reviews
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2004

Tragicomedia desparpajada, digna de ser leida
Mi hermano el alcalde, comienza y termina en Tamesis, pueblo del llamado eje cafetero de Colombia, donde Carlos, hermano del autor/narrador es electo alcalde. Alli saben Reimundo y todo el mundo, para ponerlo en buen colombiano, que Carlos y Memo, el dentista del pueblo, son amantes. Esto parece importarle a sus enemigos politicos, aunque no necesariamente al pueblo que pedia a voces ...

La virgen de los sicarios

7 reviews
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2008

Amor y odio en un clásico latinoamericano
"El pobre surrealismo se estrella en añicos contra la realidad de Colombia," escribe Fernando Vallejo casi al final de La Virgen de los Sicarios. Con esa sentencia sentenciadora de la cotidianidad sangrienta colombiana, varios escritores iniciaron una ráfaga de letras contra los que aunque le trajeron gloria literaria y reconocimiento internacional a la sufrida nación, parecían hacerse de la ...

Anos de indulgencia
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2007

The fourth novel of the autobiographical series El rÃo del tiempo, AÃ±os de indulgencia recounts the journey of the author following his stay in various European cities to New York. The narrator s voice embodies the irreverent, intelligent and passionate individual that lashes out to a country where even the rivers have blood on their hands. Description In Spanish: AÃ±os de indulgencia es la cuarta novela de la serie autobiogrÃ¡fica El ...

Los Caminos a Roma
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2005

Re-edited by Alfaguara, this novel, the third in the author?s cycle of autobiographical writings, narrates Vallejo?s experiences in New York and several European cities. Description in Spanish: Una prosa furibunda, imprecatoria, apocalíptica, cuya desesperanza deja entrever una profunda ternura.

El río del tiempo

1 review
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2003

El Maestro Fernando Vallejo
Maravilloso y conmovedor libro. La prosa del Maestro Vallejo es entretenida e inteligente con un sentido del humor negro y refinado. Admiro profundamente a Vallejo. Muy grande.

Entre Fantasmas / Between Ghosts
Fernando Vallejo

Alfaguara, 2005

"I spent my childhood and my youth attending mass and reading novels. And I heard and read so many that I lost my faith in God, which doesn?t matter much where literature is concerned? Today, I don?t step foot inside a church, not even as a tourist and you can?t get me to read a novel even if you threaten me with bodily harm. I stay with Blasco Ibáñez, Cronin, and Daphne Du Maurie. Description in Spanish: "Me pasé la infancia y la ...

Our Lady of the Assassins

2 reviews
Fernando Vallejo, Paul Hammond

Serpent's Tail, 2001

As Americans we cannot remain insular
Whereas once, say around the time of the Monroe Doctrine, the Western Hemisphere was more or less similar in development region to region due to its common background of having been colonized by European powers, there has ever since been an ever-widening gap due to the differing influences of the colonizers of the north contrasted with the south. The north, primarily colonized by the British ...

La Puta De Babilonia/ the Bitch of Babylonia

6 reviews
Fernando Vallejo

Planeta, 2007

Excelente libro histórico sobre el Catolisismo - A Must Read
Aunque a veces se pasa un poco de vulgar, en su deliciosa irreverencia, Vallejo es indudablemente un genio de nuestra lengua y un autor muy informado sobre los hechos históricos de la Iglesia Católica. Definitivamente este es un texto que debe ser leido por todos los que han sido educados en la cultura Judeo-Crisitana. Una sana, informativa y apropiada denuncia de los crímenes, abusos de poder ...

Die Madonna der Mörder.
Fernando Vallejo

Zsolnay, 2000

Le feu secret
Fernando Vallejo

LGF, 2000

Almas En Pena, Chapolas Negras
Fernando Vallejo

Punto de Lectura, 2002

Los dias azules (Autores colombianos)
Fernando Vallejo

Planeta, 1987

This novel, published originally in 1985, emphasizes the autobiographical reflections that are common in the works of Vallejo. His ominous relationship with Catholicism, his thoughts about the creative process and Literature, his visions about his country?s culture, the relationship with his father, and the Latin American boom, are some of the subjects where he leaves those explosive thoughts that have been fundamental for the development of his ...

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