Jaime Manrique
Autore di Latin Moon in Manhattan
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Manrique, Jaime
- Nome legale
- Manrique, Jaime
- Altri nomi
- Manrique Ardilla, Jaime
- Data di nascita
- 1949-06-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Colombia (birth)
USA (passport) - Luogo di nascita
- Barranquilla, Colombia
- Luogo di residenza
- Barranquilla, Colombia
Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- University of South Florida
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
professor
author - Organizzazioni
- Columbia University
City College of New York - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Colombia's National Poetry Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award - Breve biografia
- Jaime Manrique is the award-winning author of a memoir, novels, and poetry. A contributor to Salon.com, BOMB magazine, and several other publications, he lives in New York City and is an associate professor in the MFA program at Columbia University. [adapted from Our Lives are the Rivers (2006)]
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Opere correlate
- 10
- Utenti
- 343
- Popolarità
- #69,543
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 19
- ISBN
- 41
- Lingue
- 3
Colombia during the nineties and early 2000s was a violent place with many rural areas under the control of guerrilla groups and the military matching them in ruthlessness and corruption. As Lucas and Ignacio grow up in Catholic boarding schools and then go to university, Lucas grows stronger in his faith and Ignacio's fierce intelligence has him exploring the history of liberation theology. After they are ordained, they are sent into different neighborhoods in Bogota. Ignacio is sent to the most crime-ridden and poor parish, where he works hard to improve the lives of his parishioners and where he learns about the "false positives," and tries to get that story out into the world. Both his activism and his homosexuality put Ignacio into great danger.
This is a novel with a lot going on, so much so that it sometimes feels like a summary. The passages where Manrique slows down and describes the setting or the relationship between the men, the writing is beautiful and the story a lovely, if melancholic one.… (altro)