Description
One Sunday morning, a band of guerrillas comes to Mariquita and takes all the men away, leaving behind only the priest and a fair-skinned boy disguised as a little girl. Without men, the small Colombian mountain village becomes a sinking wasteland filled with women resigned to food shortages, littered streets, and mourning. But Rosalba viuda de Pati o, wife of the former police sergeant, envisions a different future for the town of widows. Declaring herself magistrate, she promises to instill law and order, and restore the failing economy and infrastructure--and proceeds to create a utopia far greater than any revolutionary's imagined ideal society.
Deft, rich, and darkly humorous, Tales from the Town of Widows marks the arrival of an unforgettable new literary talent.
Author: James Canon
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.52w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780061140396
ISBN10: 0061140392
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)