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In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets.
Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.
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"A writer who captures a hitherto hidden way of life. . . . A writer who illuminates a world." --The Washington Post Book World
"Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation . . . and infuses [her novels] with unmistakable reading pleasures." --Gabriel García Márquez
"This family epic set in contemporary Colombia holds all the indulgent pleasures of the tragic, steamy telenovellas watched by the novel's characters." --Booklist
"A gripping tale of passion and revenge." --New Woman
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Laura Restrepo livse in Bogotá, Colombia.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0732264979
- ISBN 13 9780732264970
- BindingPaperback
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Second-hand copy, no damage to describe. Set in the urban jungles of modern Columbia, this is a story of jealousy and death, of family feud and unrelenting round of payback killings. Yet it is also a love story in which two women risk all, standing aside from the accepted family traditions of crime and death, to secure a future for their beloved sons.  Rear panel blurb Translated from the Spanish, the author explores what happens when simple people  at the margins of society, justice and capitalism,  become bosses of a violent empire of drug trafficking with access to sophisticated weapons and enormous quantities of dollars Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0732264979. ISBN/EAN: 9780732264970. Inventory No: 0270118. Seller Inventory # 0270118
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