Oblivion: A Memoir

Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author€™s father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America€™s recent history.

Biographies & Memoirs

Abad, Héctor

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

"An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." ―El País Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.

Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today. Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have had to face the siege of violence and terror, restlessness and flight. In The Farm, Héctor Abad illuminates the vicissitudes of a family and of a people, as well as of the voices of these three siblings, recounting their loves, fears, desires, and hopes, all against a dazzling backdrop. We enter their lives at the moment when they are about to lose the paradise on which they built their dreams and their reality.

The Farm

Literature & Fiction

United States

Archipelago

Saint or sinner? The reader must draw his own conclusion about the aging memoirist and protagonist of Hector Abad's new novel.

The Joy of Being Awake

Contemporary

Brookline Books

*Financial Times'Best Translated Fiction 2018*When the Angel family's beloved home in the Antioquian wilderness falls into danger, they manage to defend it against the guerrillas and, later, the paramilitaries - but at a high price. After their parents' death, Pilar, Eva and Tono have to decide the fate of their father's legacy. While Pilar and Tono want to keep La Oculta, Eva, who experienced something terrible at the old farm house, is determined to sell. As the siblings each struggle with their own problems, their inner conflicts threaten to tear apart not only their home but also their family.

World Editions Ltd

No one knows the recipe for happiness—and yet Héctor Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor, Abad proffers practical advice on how to eschew sadness, attract joy, and retain delight.

Recipes for Sad Women (Pushkin Collection)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Pushkin Press

Oblivion

World Editions

Oubli Que Nous Serons

Фоліо

Bookseller Jacobo Lince, poet Andrés Zuleta, and the other residents of the La Comedia hotel face life in the isolated Andean city of Angosta, which is divided into three strictly separated social classes and plagued by violence.

Angosta / Narrow (Spanish Edition)

Abad Faciolince, Hector Joaquin

Short Stories & Anthologies

Planeta Publishing

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Oblivion: A Memoir

Oblivion: A Memoir

The Farm

The Joy of Being Awake

The Farm

Recipes for Sad Women (Pushkin Collection)

Oblivion

Oubli Que Nous Serons

Angosta / Narrow (Spanish Edition)