Name: Shooting Down Heaven
SKU: 52768278
Price: 20.44 EUR
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Author: Franco, Jorge ; Rosenberg, Andrea
ISBN: 9781609455897

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jorge Franco

Translated by

Andrea Rosenberg

Publisher

Europa Editions

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781609455897

Synopsis "Shooting Down Heaven "

Expertly told by one of Latin America’s most exciting voices, Shooting Down Heaven follows the children raised by 1990s Colombia’s most dangerous drug cartels and the consequences that shape their adulthood. After twelve years away, Larry comes home to his native country of Colombia after his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar, is murdered. Larry returns to collect his remains from a mass grave and give him a proper burial…but not before a reunion with his childhood friend, Pedro. Pedro picks him up at the airport to take him directly to the Alborada celebration―a popular festival where fireworks explode over Medellín, and the entire city loses its inhibitions. This is where Larry’s story really begins. His long-awaited homecoming quickly becomes a rude awakening. The years of luxury living in bodyguard-surrounded mansions are now firmly in the past, as Larry watches his family―including his ex-beauty queen mother and troubled brother―fall deeper into depression, drug addiction, and the traps of the family business. Faced by an uncertain reality, Larry is forced to confront his family’s turbulent history and reclaim himself from the dark remnants of a city still trying to rediscover itself. Unflinching and remarkably controlled, Jorge Franco creates a stunning portrait of a generation wounded by their parents’ mistakes.

Jorge Franco

(Author)

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Born in Medellín, Colombia. Studied Film Direction and Production at The London Film School, in the United Kingdom, and Literature at Javeriana University. He has published the short story book Maldito amor, the children's story La niña calva, and the novels Mala noche, Rosario Tijeras (winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award for crime fiction), Paraíso Travel, Melodrama, Santa suerte, El mundo de afuera (Alfaguara Novel Prize 2014), El cielo a tiros, and El vacío en el que flotas. His works have been successfully adapted into films and television, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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