Title : In the City of Intrepid Widows - James Canon - book

Summary :

2008 First Foreign Novel Prize

Since the day the guerrillas landed and requisitioned all the men in the village of Mariquita, the women have been left to their own devices. No matter! The submissive housewives and docile wives will establish a new social order. Thus, the very mustachioed Morales sisters decide to remedy their condition as frustrated spinsters by creating a traveling brothel; Francisca, the widow of a notorious money-grubber, leads the high life after discovering her husband's loot. And then there is the tenacious Rosalba, self-proclaimed mayor, and Padre Rafael, the only survivor of the male sex, volunteering to ensure the procreation of the new generation... Baroque, dazzling with fantasy, the tragic-burlesque chronicle of a lost village in the depths of Colombia.

Cañón, a disciple of García Márquez and his magical realism, succeeds in creating an optimistic, tasty and naughty tale. Jacques Gantié, Nice Matin.

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