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Poso Wells / Gabriela Alemán ; translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster.
Van Pelt Library PQ7889.2.A438 P67 2018
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alemán Salvador, María Gabriela, 1968- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poso Wells. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Presidential candidates--Death--Fiction.
- Presidential candidates.
- Disappeared persons--Fiction.
- Disappeared persons.
- Journalists--Fiction.
- Journalists.
- Politics and government.
- Death.
- Ecuador.
- Ecuador--Politics and government--Fiction.
- Alemán Salvador, María Gabriela, 1968---Translations into English.
- Alemán Salvador, María Gabriela.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor--next in line for the presidency--inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless underworld. Bella Altamirano, a fearless local, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement's code of silence, ignoring repeated death threats. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected, and not just to a local crime wave, but to a multinational magnate's plan to plunder the country's cloud forest preserve."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The cooperative of Poso Wells. The candidate ; Yesterday's papers ; The hole ; The scar ; Waiting forever for you ; Órale Pinche Güey ; A mass for the dead ; The spur
- Amazonas and Naciones Unidas. Press conference ; Minefields express ; The bottom of the empty glass
- The cloud forest. Checkmate ; The prosecutor ; The sovereign people ; Without you...
- ISBN:
- 9780872867550
- 0872867552
- OCLC:
- 1006309043
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