Divine Punishment

By: Sergio Ramirez, Nick Caistor (Translator)

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Hardcover | 6 May 2015

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512 Pages

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21.59 x 15.24 x 4.45

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Divine Punishment by Sergio Ramirez, originally published in Spanish in 1988 as Castigo Divino, translated by Nick Caistor, with Hebe Powell, in its first English language edition.

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"Set in the Nicaraguan city of Leon in the 1930s, and based on a true story, it concerns the case of Oliverio Castaneda, a young charmer and social climber accused of killing neighbors, patrons, and lovers by poisoning. ... Hilarious, riveting, beautifully constructed and written." -- Dan Bellm "PEN" ..". Rami?rez extends Flaubert's techniques to a whole society, which becomes a true microcosm of Central America... Between the fullness of comedy and the imminence of tragedy, Sergio Rami?rez has written the great novel of Central America -- the novel that it was necessary to have..." -- Carlos Fuentes "--" Between the fullness of comedy and the imminence of tragedy, Sergio Ram rez has written the great novel of Central America the novel that it was necessary to have in order to reach an intimacy with its peoples, to visit the edge between their traditional recalcitrance and their potential for renewal. . . -- Carlos Fuentes "-----" "As with the works of Henry James, Divine Punishment is an epic of consciousness. But unlike them, the consciousness stirred here is not individual but collective ... Sergio Ram rez draws one of the most formidable portraits of bourgeois hypocrisy ever written in Latin America ..." -- Tom s Eloy Mart nez "----------"

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