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2007 Nominated

Queen Cocaine

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerrillas, and the drug traffickers spin a perilous web in which the three main characters who inhabit this novel are caught: Rat, a young Catalan woman who has recently arrived in Colombia; Aida, a local visionary who is adept at weaving spells, and Wilson, a writer and journalist persecuted because of his ideas and tormented by his own frustrations

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Nuria
Amat

ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Peter
Bush

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Spain
Original Language
Spanish
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Translator
Peter Bush

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