Santiago Gamboa
Author
Publisher
Europa
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling literary novel about crime and corruption in Latin America told in alternating voices and perspectives, Night Prayers is the story of Manuel, a Colombian philosophy student arrested in Bangkok and accused of drug trafficking. Unless he enters a guilty plea he will almost certainly be sentenced to death. But it is not his own death that weighs most heavily on him but a tender longing for his sister, Juana, whom he hasn't seen for...
2) Necropolis
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An author attends a conference featuring a series of extraordinary life stories, where the story of formerly troubled evangelical pastor José Maturana captures his imagination and causes him to seek answers when Maturana is later found dead.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen anything. Nobody claims to have heard anything. That is, until an anonymous accusation catalyzes a dangerous investigation into the deep underbelly of the Christian churches present today in Latin America. The Night Will Be...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's 'dark valley.' There is Tertullian, an Argentine who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to consort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society. There is Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary...
5) Necrópolis
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Norma
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Un escritor es invitado a un congreso de biógrafos en la ciudad de Jerusalén, metáfora de una urbe sitiada por la guerra, a punto de sucumbir. La narración de las vidas de los participantes al congreso sorprende al protagonista. Tal es el caso del librero y biógrafo francés Edgar Miret Supervielle, de la actriz porno italiana Sabina Vedovelli, del empresario colombiano Moisés Kaplan y, sobre todo, de José Maturana, un ex pastor evangélico,...
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
This film is a clever social criticism of the wide-spread corruption in Colombia. The discovery of an impaled corpse near Bogotá, makes journalist Victor Silampa and office clerk Emir Estupinan̋́ embark on a captivating and gruesome journey into the dark underbelly of this nation. With the aid of a young prostitute and the officer in charge of the case, Victor and Emir manage to discover a real estate fraud scheme that involves politicians, emerald...