The Violence: My Family's Colombian War

The Violence: My Family's Colombian War - Hardcover

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The Violence: My Family's Colombian War - Hardcover

The Violence: My Family's Colombian War - Hardcover

by Adriana E. Ramírez
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Now in paperback, an "eminently readable and beautifully written" (Kirkus, starred) chronicle of Colombia's descent into decades of civil war through the lens of an intimate, multi-generational tale of upheaval and betrayal.

When presumed president-elect Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, champion of the working class and harbinger of a new era of progressive social change, is assassinated on the eve of Colombia's 1948 presidential election, the capital is plunged into bloodshed. So begins a singularly brutal period of Colombia's history known simply as la violencia--a bloody civil war that spawned decades of turmoil and splintered the country into ever-shifting factions.

The Violence is "a sinuous narrative, melding family saga with history" (Time magazine)--told not from the political center of the war but from the mountainous finca that Adriana E. Ramírez's family tended to for generations, and through the eyes of her formidable grandmother, Esther. With startling lyricism, Ramírez illuminates the specter of violence--from guerrilla warfare to the brutalities found so often in romantic relationships to the spontaneous and senseless violence steeped into everyday Colombian life during this period--and the threat that it poses to a country, and a family, that is trying to stay whole. Gracefully braiding together history, family history, and personal narrative, Adriana E. Ramírez traces these parallel stories of upheaval in a sweeping portrait of a country and family in flux.
ISBN9781501145209
Author Adriana E. Ramírez
PublisherScribner Book Company
GenreBiography and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Adriana E. Ramírez

Adriana E. Ramírez is a writer, critic, and poet based in Pittsburgh. She is the winner of the 2015 PEN/Fusion Emerging Writer's Prize, a former critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times's Book Section, and the cofounder of Aster(ix) Journal. Her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, People, ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape), LitHub, Guernica, Nerve, and elsewhere. She once lost terribly on Jeopardy!.

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