Our Lady of the Assassins (novel)
1994 novel by Fernando Vallejo / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Our Lady of the Assassins (Spanish title: La virgen de los sicarios) is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo about an author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare. The novel was later adapted into a film that received different international recognitions like the Award of the Italian Senate, the Venice Film Festival (2000) as the best Latin American film and the Havana International Festival Nuevo Cine (2000).[1]
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Author | Fernando Vallejo |
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Original title | La virgen de los sicarios |
Language | Spanish |
Genre | Narcoliteratura |
Publication date | 1994 |
Publication place | Colombia |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
A growing body of scholarship and critical commentary already exist about this controversial work, most of it in Spanish. The brief sections below attempt to give the reader a basic understanding of some main approaches to what undoubtedly is a central work in Colombian fiction of the 1990s. An elaborated and discussed fictional work dealing with events related to the drug trade and its deleterious consequences in Colombian society.
Notice: Any text from the novel in this article is a free translation by Wikipedians, and should not be considered official. The novel was formally translated into English in 2001.