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Luis González Sarmiento

Colombia

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    Narrativa Colombiana 2019 · Finalist

    El jefe

    Title translated by AI:“The Chief”

    Luis González Sarmiento

    Novel · 335 pages · Historical, Politics, Crime

    AI-generated summary:In Bogotá in the 1940s, as Colombia prepares to declare war on the Axis, the fate of a German-owned brewery pits the ruling class against a bootlegger, a chichería owner and the politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.