Cizana - Carlos Sanclemente Erazo

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Résumé :
An unexpected electrical blackout on December 31 leads the inhabitants of Guayabara to modify their New Year's Eve party. During the unusual celebration, the disappearance of old Romulo, the town's telephone operator, a man with a reputation for being sullen and dangerous, whom many look upon with suspicion, occurs. Immediately, suspicion takes hold of its inhabitants and leads them to be part of a game of lucubrations from which no one is exempt or can be considered innocent. In a small town in southern Colombia, at the mercy of an untamed river and an overflowing and enigmatic nature, flow the life and actions of these energetic characters who coexist under the command of temporality. Their hatreds and loves, their bitterness and joys, their starkest human condition are laid bare before the scrutiny of that foreign eye that, curious and even insolent, approaches to see their living everyday life....

Sommaire:
Carlos Sanclemente (Popay?n, Colombia, 1979) es autor de la novela 'Los que esperan su duelo' (Berenice, 2021), un retrato desgarrador de la guerra en Colombia en el que se nos alerta sobre los efectos demoledores de la ausencia, la desmemoria y el olvido, con este relato result? finalista del VI Premio Albert Jovell de Novela, auspiciado por la Fundaci?n para la Protecci?n Social de la OMC. Tambi?n es autor de 'El gobierno de los b?nvaros' (Utop?a, 2016), una novela que recrea el vehemente estado emocional de un pa?s 'democrAtico' en pleno ?xtasis b?lico a trav?s de su figura presidencial. Con su ?ltima obra, 'Ciza?a', gan? el XXIV Premio de Novela Rural de la Diputaci?n de C?rdoba (2023). Licenciado en Ingenier?a Agroforestal por la Universidad de Nari?o (Colombia), con m?ster en Agroecolog?a y diplomatura de Estudios Avanzados en el ?rea de Sociolog?a, combina su faceta literaria con su labor como investigador del Departamento de Geograf?a, Historia y Filosof?a de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Sevilla), en la l?nea de la socioecohidrolog?a de los agroecosistemas....