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Oblivion 1st January 1970

The place is Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, and the time is the quarter-century from the early 1960s until 1987. Oblivion is a memorial to the author’s father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his...

The General in his Labyrinth 1st January 1970

This is the story of the last days of Simon Bolivar who was the liberator of South America (or more acurately Gran Colombia, which comprised present day Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador). He has driven out the Spanish and is...