Author: Evelio Rosero
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, armies
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811218643
ISBN-13: 9780811218641

An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree on a red floral quilt. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail’s wife, is ashamed of his peeping and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz. Instead, Ismail wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have