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Oblivion: A Memoir
Contributor(s): Abad, Héctor (Author), McLean, Anne (Translator), Harvey, Rosalind (Translator)
ISBN: 0374533938     ISBN-13: 9780374533939
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- History | Latin America - South America
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.55 lbs) 263 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
 
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An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America. --El Pa s

H ctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, H ctor Abad G mez, 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Abad, Hector: - 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. He is the author of Oblivion.