Necropolis - Softcover

Gamboa, Santiago

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609450736 ISBN 13: 9781609450731

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2012

Synopsis

An unnamed author is invited to the International Congress of Biography and Memory in Jerusalem. In the conference rooms of a luxury hotel, he listens to a series of extraordinary life stories. But it is Jos Maturana - evangelical pastor, recovering drug addict and ex-con - with his story of redemption at the hands of a charismatic tattooed messiah from Miami, who fascinates the author more than any other. But is it true? Hours later however, Maturana is found dead in his hotel room. The narrator, moved by Maturana's life story sets out to discover the truth about his death.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Necropolis

"Santiago Gamboa and García Márquez are the two most important Colombian writers."
—Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

"Gamboa is one of the most interesting Latin American writers...[and Necropolis] is his most ambitious novel yet."
—La Nación 

"[With Necropolis] Gamboa proves once again that perhaps no other contemporary Colombian author more perfectly captures the rhythm of storytelling...A formidable writer who deserves robust praise for uniquely lively, lucid and passionate prose."
—El Espectador (Colombia)

"[Necropolis exhibits a] magnificent use of language, accomplishing the difficult task of bringing so many different voices to life whilst making each one authentic and unique."
—La Otra Orilla Jury

"A modern Decameron...an unusual and wistful novel."
—La Liberté 

About the Author:

Novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Santiago Gamboa was born in Colombia in 1965. His American debut, published by Europa in 2012, was the novel Necropolis, winner of the Otra Orilla Literary Prize. He is also the author of Night Prayers (Europa Editions, 2016).

For Europa Editions, Howard Curtis has translated five novels by Jean-Claude Izzo, including all three books in his Marseilles trilogy, as well as fiction by Francisco Coloane, Canek Sanchez Guevara, Caryl Férey, and two previous books by Santiago Gamboa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1609450736
• ISBN 13: 9781609450731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464