Dead Men Cast No Shadows (The Managua Trilogy) - Softcover

Ramirez, Sergio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620540614 ISBN 13: 9781620540619

Publisher: McPherson, 2023

Synopsis

Volume 3 of The Managua Trilogy, following The Sky Weeps for Me and No One Weeps for Me Now. Exiled to Honduras, Inspector Dolores Morales undertakes a dangerous journey back into Nicaragua, hunted by agents of the secret police whose commissioner, with ruthless cynicism and the divinatory advice of his mother, serves as enabler-in-chief of the country's deranged politics. Desperate to reunite with his ailing main squeeze, Morales soon finds himself entangled by other concerns: a massive peaceful student protest erupts throughout Managua, only to be suppressed with extreme prejudice by police and paramilitary forces. Gradually a murky network is revealed, full of secrets, betrayals and dark maneuvers that Inspector Morales will have to face. Even as the 2018 massacre of 400 students is skillfully dramatized, and a portrait painted unsparingly of a society shaped by tyranny, corruption, poverty and misery, Ramirez never loses sight of the humanity of Nicaragua's people and their hopes.--Bruce

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About the Author

Daryl R. Hague received his JD from the University of Washington (1990), his MA from Brigham Young University (1996), and his PhD from Binghamton University (2002). Dr. Hague is an associate professor in the Brigham Young U.'s Department of Spanish and Portuguese where his interests include translation pedagogy, representations of translation in literature and film, legal translation, translation assessment, and literary translation. He has published articles in leading journals, and many translations, both legal and literary.

From the Back Cover

On the dangerous journey back to Nicaragua from their Honduran exile, Inspector Morales and his old revolutionary comrade Serafín witness the brutal murder of their guide. Agents of the secret police are on their tail, forcing them to take temporary sanctuary with leftist priests, loyal friends, and common Nicaraguans, all swept up in the deranged cynicism, graft, and violence of a dictatorship built on the lies of a long-since-abandoned idealism. As Managua heaves with student protests, and hundreds die at the hands of police and paramilitary units, the inspector continues his dogged quest, uncovering a murky network full of secrets, betrayals and dark maneuvers that he will have to face, or be overwhelmed by. Dead Men Cast No Shadows's unsparing portrait of a society shaped by corruption and poverty led to its author's exile--but Ramírez's vision of the Ortega regime's savagery never overwhelms his exuberance or appreciation of the Nicaraguan people's humanity, and their capacity for irony, resilience, and resistance.

Edition details

• Publisher: McPherson
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620540614
• ISBN 13: 9781620540619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284