Héctor Abad Anne McLean (Translated by) Rosalind Harvey (Translated by)
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Oblivion
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"An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El País
Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0374533938
Item Weight: 0.5 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
"A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." --Javier Cercas
"A heartrending memoir of the author's family and father [and] a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence." --Mario Vargas Llosa
Héctor Abad is one of Colombia's leading writers. Born in 1958, he grew up in Medellín, where he studied medicine, philosophy, and journalism. After being expelled from university for writing a defamatory text against the Pope, he moved to Italy before returning to his homeland in 1987.
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