Rebelión de los oficios inútiles

In a Colombian town at the time of the fraudulent elections of April 1970, three voices tell of a small uprising. Ana Dolores Larrota, an elderly peasant woman with nothing to lose, leads a crowd of homeless labourers in taking over land. Simón Alemán, a cultured, alcoholic landowner lost in nostalgia, wastes the family fortune on a mad plan to build a luxury neighbourhood on a hilltop. Joaquín Borja, a journalist, struggles to keep his paper alive and print what he believes is true against those in power. Together they show the class conflict and political violence that shook Colombia. It belongs to the author's planned five-book cycle on Colombia's violent twentieth century.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

310 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Colombia, 1970

First published

2014 by Clarín/Alfaguara

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789870729372 (original)