The 3 best books by Héctor Abad Faciolince

The long shadow of Gabriel García Márquez looms over every Colombian author, even more so in a Hector Abad Faciolince revealed as one of the great current Colombian writers. A writer who also communes as a narrator with the notion of the three lives that Gabo unfailingly associated with every human being: private, public and secret life.

A great storyteller faces the three spheres of life to compose each character in a meticulous and embarrassingly true way, with its contradictions, and with the deepest drives that move towards that form (at times glorious and at other pathetic) of riding. those contradictions.

In the case of Enhance the brilliance of your prose completes the reading experience. While the choice of each argument moves us from the most intense intrahistoric chronicle to the literary existential one. That existentialism disguised as meditations, reflections, descriptions sifted by the subjective impressions and loaded with meaning of its characters.

Top 3 recommended novels by Héctor Abad Faciolince

El olvido que seremos

Surely there are stories that they would rather not have been told. And yet they end up emerging as brilliant stories of the tragic that in their sublimation of black on white at least reach a greater general meaning, far beyond the mere resilience of those who suffer the facts.

A mixture between the biographical and the romantic that ultimately makes up the notion of the son who recounts the sad events that occurred in the father's life. A few years ago I was in Medellín for work reasons. The truth is that one always arrives with reservations in a city with its recent history submerged in the haze of its cartel and its hitmen. In the end, this capital is already open to a reconstructed present and future thanks to a lively and friendly citizenry. But of course, the thousands of deaths in the 80's are still remembered ...

August 25, 1987 Héctor Abad Gómez, doctor and human rights activist, is assassinated in Medellín. This book is his fictionalized biography, written by his own son. A heartbreaking and moving story about the family, which reflects, at the same time, the hell of violence that has hit Colombia in the last fifty years.«As a child I wanted something impossible: that my father never die. As a writer, I wanted to do something just as impossible: for my father to be resurrected. If there are fictional characters - made of words - who will always be alive, isn't it possible for a real person to still be alive if we turn them into words? That is what I wanted to do with my dead father: make him as alive and as real as a fictional character.

El olvido que seremos

The hidden

What is it that unites us to the earth, what awakens us that feeling of belonging? Beyond telluric forces that can act on us, memories, experiences, confessions and even secrets are what hold us to some place where we were once happy.

That is the The hidden farm for the three brothers who are introducing us to history. Emotion is a complementary sensation between these three disparate but at the same time symbiotic protagonists to compose all the margins and the area of ​​existence fixed in this brilliant novel on the farm. It is a hidden farm in the mountains of Colombia. The three brothers in question are Pilar, Eva and Antonio Ángel, heirs of this land, which has survived several generations of the family. In it they have spent the happiest moments of their lives, but they have also had to face the siege of violence and terror, restlessness and flight.

Based on the voices of the three brothers, the recounting of their loves, fears, desires and hopes, and with a dazzling landscape as a backdrop, Héctor Abad Faciolince illuminates in La Oculta the vicissitudes of a family and a town, thus like the moment when the paradise on which they built their realities and dreams is about to be lost. Based on the voices of the three brothers, the recounting of their loves, fears, desires and hopes, and with a dazzling landscape as a backdrop, Héctor Abad Faciolince illuminates in La Oculta the vicissitudes of a family and a town, thus like the moment when the paradise on which they built their realities and dreams is about to be lost.

The hidden

Fragments of furtive love

Oddities like this have a something special. At least for me. At first they may seem out of place, dissonant with the rest of a work but in the end you always find that special reason for it to be so different. And most of the time it is enjoyed discovering a strange compendium of everything, or an orgasmic release of creativity. Whatever it is, always give weirdness a chance, because it will end up marveling you.

As in the Decameron, the lovers lock themselves in the hills, far from the plague, to tell stories that save them from death. Susana is Scherezada and night after night she tells her sultan Rodrigo a new story. Each story describes the episode of one of her many past lovers and Rodrigo postpones his decision to behead her at each dawn. All to receive the next night, the stab of jealousy from another story.

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Except my heart, everything is fine

Question of irreducible optimism. Like the phrase of that dying man who, listening to his doctor between hasty prognoses with a minimum of hope, explained: "I understand, doctor, I die cured." And it is that being pessimistic is not the most opportune when something is really going wrong. In the meantime we can complain, be hypochondriacs or lament over any mouthful. But if the heart is bad, that's when you have to draw strength from weakness...

The priest Luis Córdoba is waiting for a heart transplant. He is a kind priest, tall, fat, but his very size makes it difficult to find a donor. As the doctors advise him to rest and his residence has many stairs, he receives lodging in a house where two women live, one of them recently separated, and three children. Córdoba, who is good and educated # film critic and opera expert, enjoys sharing what he knows with women without husbands and children without fathers. He is soon drawn into and fascinated by family life and, unintentionally, he begins to play the role of paterfamilias and rethink his life choices.

Except for my heart, everything is fine is the story of a kind priest #inspired by a real priest who tests his beliefs and his unwavering optimism in a hostile world. His existential crisis, in the midst of characters full of desire to live, shows us a vision of marriage as a besieged fortress: those who are inside want to get out, and those who are outside want to get in.

Except my heart, everything is fine
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