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035    (OCoLC)811778974 
035    (OCoLC)811778974 
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050 00 PS3607.R6744|bB64 2013 
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100 1  Grostephan, Alan. 
245 10 Bogotá :|ba novel /|cAlan Grostephan. 
264  1 Evanston, Ill. :|bTriQuarterly Books/Northwestern 
       University Press,|c2013. 
300    229 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    In Bogotá, a taut, moving novel set in present-day 
       Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their
       small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects 
       him to the gruesome errands demanded by the local 
       paramilitary. Moving in with relatives in a slum in Bogotá
       , the family tries desperately to achieve the smallest 
       measure of comfort and hope in a world of almost total 
       ruin, wracked by deprivation, fear, and ceaseless 
       violence. Alan Grostephan depicts with startling immediacy
       an urban landscape of extreme harshness and oppressive 
       instability. The tension between the desperate conditions 
       surrounding his characters and their efforts to hold on to
       their humanity gives Bogotá a ferocious energy. As 
       Wilfredo and his family fight to stay alive and stay 
       together, their plight emerges as equally enraging and 
       uplifting, constituting a portrait of a society always on 
       the verge of disintegration. 
650  0 Rural-urban migration|zColombia|vFiction. 
651  0 Bogotá (Colombia)|vFiction. 
651  0 Bogotá (Colombia)|xSocial conditions|vFiction. 
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