Oblivion: A Memoir

Oblivion: A Memoir - Paperback

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Oblivion: A Memoir - Paperback

Oblivion: A Memoir - Paperback

by Héctor Abad
$18.00
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by Héctor Abad (Author), Anne McLean (Translator), Rosalind Harvey (Translator)

Now the basis for the acclaimed film Memories of My Father, directed by Fernando Trueba.

"An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El País

Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.

Author Biography

Héctor Abad is one of Colombia's leading writers. Born in 1958, he grew up in Medellín, where he studied medicine, philosophy, and journalism. After being expelled from university for writing a defamatory text against the Pope, he moved to Italy before returning to his homeland in 1987.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: May 14, 2013
ISBN9780374533939
Author Héctor Abad
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Héctor Abad

Héctor Abad was born in Medellín, Colombia in 1958. At the age of twenty-one, Abad won the Colombian National Short Story Prize, and has twice won the Símon Bolívar Prize for journalism. In 1987, his father was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries, an event he reflected on 20 years later in Oblivion: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012), which earned widespread critical acclaim as well as the WOLA-Duke Book Award. After his father's death, Abad was forced into exile, moving first to Spain and then to Italy. He studied Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Turin. His translations from the Italian include works by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Umberto Eco. Abad's books have been translated into more than fifteen languages, including Anne McLean's translation of The Farm, which Archipelago published in 2018.

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