<p>Colombia, November 1993: a reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats, and artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music, trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this crusade of hope is Manu Chao with his band Mano Negra. Ramón Chao is on board to chronicle the journey. As the train climbs 1,000 kilometers from Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast to Bogotá in the Altiplano, Ramón keeps one eye on the fluctuating morale of the train's eccentric cargo, and the other on the ever-changing physical and social landscape.</p>

The Train of Ice and Fire: Mano Negra in Colombia

Travel

Chao, Ramón

Travel Writing

Route

A young man listens as his grandmother (Dolores) recounts stories from her life, which he writes down in the hope of making sense of them all. Following a fortune-telling Galician childhood and romantic adventures with a much older lover, Dolores's story takes her to Cuba at the end of the nineteenth century. Finding work as a maid in the household of a high-ranking Cuban official, she finds herself immersed in a whirlwind of political change. A magical realist account of Ramon Chao's family saga and the political maelstrom into which he was born, tracing a personal and political line from the Spanish-American War to the Spanish Civil War. ""Chao's work is equal parts historical fiction, family saga, and magical realism, and like all life-spanning chronicles, some stories provide bigger punches than others.""--Publishers Weekly Sept. 9, 2013

Because Cuba Is You

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ein Zug aus Eis und Feuer: Mit Mano Negra durch Kolumbien

Edition Nautilus

El lago de Como (Colección En cuarto mayor) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Argos Vergara

Un posible Onetti (Conversas) (Spanish Edition)

Ronsel Editorial

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