Rio muerto / Dead River
Ricardo Silva Romero
Rio muerto / Dead River
Ricardo Silva Romero
Se cuenta y se vuelve a contar, con estas mismas palabras que he estado usando,la fabula real de la madre que un dia bisiesto fue de verdugo en verdugo pidiendo a los gritos que los mataran a ella y a sus dos hijos porque les habian dejado la familia sin padre .
A las afueras de Belen del Chami, un pueblo que aun no consigue aparecer en el mapa de Colombia, el mudo Salomon Palacios es asesinado a unos pasos de su casa. Despues de los primeros dias de duelo, su viuda, la corajuda y deslenguada Hipolita, vuelve de la oscuridad del tormento para perder de una vez por todas la cordura y salir a buscar su propio fin. Pero en medio de aquel viaje desesperado #y en el enfrentamiento con un bestiario de personajes llenos de humor y de vida en el contexto de la muerte# se topara con una tardia e inesperada vocacion por seguir viva.
Rio Muerto es una de las novelas mas personales de su autor, pues en ella retrata de manera vertiginosa, conmovedora y descarnada #y ademas de primera mano# la perdida del padre, el duelo y la desintegracion de los lazos familiares a causa de la violencia. Y confirma una intuicion que ha rondado toda su obra: la de como lo invisible #la imaginacion, la memoria, la esperanza, la ficcion, la conexion con el mas alla, el destino# puede resolvernos los peores dramas.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Story tells of a fable about a mother who on a leap day went to every criminal and hit man in town crying out desperately for them to kill her and her two children because they had left her family fatherless.
On the outskirts of Belen del Chami, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomon Palacios is murdered a few steps from his home. After the first days of mourning, his widow, the courageous and foul-mouthed Hipolita, returns from the darkness of her anguish only to completely lose her sanity and go out to seek her own end. But in the midst of that desperate journey -and as she faces those criminals that are nothing short of beasts, but full of humor and life in the context of death- she will run into an unexpected calling to stay alive.
Rio Muerto / Dead River is one of its author’s most personal novels; in a vertiginous, moving, and stark way, and also firsthand, he portrays the loss of a father, as well as the grief and breakdown of families due to violence. He also confirms an intuition that has been present for his entire work: that of how the invisible -imagination, memories, hope, a connection with the afterlife, destiny- can solve the worst problems.
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