Rosario Tijeras Una Novela

Name: Rosario Tijeras Una Novela
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ISBN: 9781583226124

ISBN-10: 1583226125

ISBN-13: 9781583226124

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jorge Franco

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"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets (in a country where it is common practice among her colleagues to boil bullets in holy water before using them). Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 1/6/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550

Born in Medellin, Colombia, Jorge Franco is also the author of Maldita amor, for which he won the Pedro Gomez Valderrama National Narrative prize, and Mala Noche, which received a literary prize in the Ciudad de Pereira National Novel Competition.