“Leer este libro, en el que estoy tan acompañado, es como volar con Sergio, formar parte de un milagro. Siempre creí que gastaba bromas cuando me llamaba Juan de Juanes. Después, cuando leí este libro, embobado, maravillado de su magia, comprobé que había convertido esa broma aparente en una magia como de Borges: todo lo que parece es, y a veces es también lo que deja de parecer. Leí este libro con el entusiasmo asustado: cómo de lo que para otros hubiera sido un celaje, un avistamiento, en Sergio Ramírez es una metáfora sobre la tierra, una luz. Cuando lean este libro entenderán hasta qué punto la palabra magia, como las palabras Borges o Cortázar, no son exageraciones ni adjetivos, es el sustantivo que mejor define el estilo aéreo, volátil y profundo como la piel, de Sergio Ramírez". Juan Cruz Ruiz

Juan de Juanes (Spanish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

RAMÍREZ, SERGIO

Ediciones, La Pereza

Arts & Literature

La Pereza Ediciones

Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Historical

Duke University Press Books

Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.

Hatful of Tigers is a collection of poetic essays, reminiscences, and sketches exploring the reality of Central America by one of Latin America's most accomplished writers. This fascinating mosaic is also Ramirez's homage to the narrative's central figure, the world-renowned writer Julio Cortázar, whose commitment to the Nicaraguan revolution served as an inspiration for the Nicaraguan people.

Hatful of Tigers: Reflections on Art, Culture and Politics

History

Americas

Curbstone Books

Portrays the experiences of Nicaraguan musicians, soldiers, prostitutes, politicians, beauty queens, and other characters during the Somoza regime

To Bury Our Fathers: A Novel of Nicaragua (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

UNKNO

Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into English. The long years of dictatorship in Nicaragua are dramatically recreated as cabaret singers, activists, policemen, prostitutes, beauty queens and would-be presidents haunt this sophisticated, lyrical and timeless epic of resistance and retribution.
“One of the most talented Central American writers of his generation” NEW YORK TIMES
Subtle and convincing…, the book never loses its linguistic power or elegiac emotion.” LOS ANGELES TIMES
Rich in vivid and sensuous details of everyday life…out of which come potent emblems” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

United States

Readers International

In the two decades since Sergio Ramírez left active politics as a Sandinista leader of one of the great leftist revolutions of the Americas, his output as a writer and the appreciation of his literary achievement have only grown larger, culminating in his winning the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary accolade for a writer in the Hispanic world.These stories dating from early in his writing career and also marking his return to literature after a gap of some years in active politics, testify to the subtlety, delicacy and wit of Nicaragua’s leading literary voice.

Stories (Readers International)

Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea

1907. Leon, Nicaragua. During a tribute which he delivers during his triumphal return to his native city, Ruben Dario writes on the fan of a little girl one of his most famous poems, "Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea." 1956. In a cafe in Leon, a group of literati gather, dedicated, among other things, to the rigorous reconstruction of the legend surrounding Dario-but also to conspire. The dictator Anastasio Somoza is visiting the city, accompanied by his wife, Dona Salvadorita. A banquet of pomp and splendor is being planned. There will be an attempt against the dictator's life, and that little girl with the fan from a half-century before, will not be a disinterested party. In Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, Sergio Ramirez encompasses, in a complete metaphor of reality and legend, the entire history of his country. The narrative moves along paths 50 years apart, which inevitably converge. The story becomes a fascinating exercise on the power of memory, on the influence of the past, fictitious or not, in the finality of reality. "A total novel about the secret mysteries of science, of poetry and of dictatorships. The beauties of Ruben Dario and the horrors of Somoza intertwine in an unforgettable and absorbing story."-Tomas Eloy Martinez Author of six books of fiction, Sergio Ramirez was born in Masatepe, Nicaragua in 1942. As a student in the 1950s, he worked for social change, co-founded the literary journal Ventana, and later became a member of the "Group of Twelve," intellectual supporters of the Sandinista movement. He was vice president of Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime. During 2000, Mr. Ramirez was writer-in-residence at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Ordre du Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France.

Margarita, How Beautiful The Sea

Curbstone Pr

«El talento narrativo del autor domina este libro. Rescata del olvido una revolución que despertó enormes esperanzas y conmovidas adhesiones.» Javier Pradera, Babelia   Con la pérdida de las elecciones generales en 1990, el proceso iniciado por la revolución sandinista contra el dictador Somoza en 1979 se detuvo en seco, y con él también se difuminaron los sueños, anhelos y esperanzas de cientos de miles de ciudadanos que participaron en aquel proceso transformador. Sergio Ramírez, miembro de la dirigencia revolucionaria y vicepresidente en la fórmula con Daniel Ortega, fue testigo excepcional de una utopía que se extendió más allá de las fronteras nicaragüenses.  Adiós muchachos es la memoria de una generación que luchó por unos ideales de rebeldía comunes, y que, si bien no pudo ver cumplidos todos sus objetivos de justicia, riqueza y desarrollo, siente el orgullo de haber traído la democracia a su país, Nicaragua, cuando las ideologías parecen desvanecerse. Esta edición lleva un nuevo prólogo del autor, que pone en perspectiva sus reflexiones críticas tras el regreso al poder del Frente Sandinista, con el propio Daniel Ortega a la cabeza.  La crítica ha dicho «Más allá de las ideologías Adiós muchachos encierra el interés de lo auténtico y lo honesto.» Carmen Rodríguez Santos, ABC  ENGLISH DESCRIPTION  Beyond the ideologies, Goodbye, Fellows holds the interest of that which is authentic and honest.” Carmen Rodriguez Santos, ABC After losing the general election in 1990, the process started by the 1979 Sandinista Revolution against the Somoza dictatorship was stopped in its tracks, and with it faded the dreams, desires, and hopes of hundreds of thousands of citizens who participated in that tranformative process. Sergio Ramírez, member of the revolutionary leadership and vice president along with Daniel Ortega, was an extraordinary witness of a utopia that extended beyond the Nicaraguan border. Goodbye, Fellows is the memory of a generation who fought for the ideals of common rebellion, and who, even if they could not see all of their objectives for justice, riches, and development come true, feel pride for having brought democracy to their country, Nicaragua, when ideologies seemed to dissipate.

Adiós muchachos / Goodbye, Fellows (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Alfaguara

Asesinatos y narcotráfico, policías y cárteles. Nadie es inocente. El inspector Dolores Morales y el subdirector Bert Dixon, del Departamento de Narcóticos de la policía nicaragüense, investigan la desaparición de una mujer; las únicas pistas son un yate abandonado en la costa de Laguna de Perlas, un libro quemado y una camiseta ensangrentada (más tarde aparecerán una valija con cien mil dólares y un vestido de novia). Los detectives crean una insólita red de espionaje en la que participan por igual la DEA y doña Sofía, afanadora del Departamento de Policía. Las cosas se ponen candentes cuando ocurre una serie de asesinatos, entre ellos el del principal testigo, y queda claro que la misión es frustrar una reunión de los carteles más importantes de México, Nicaragua y Colombia, y capturar a El Mancebo, sobrino de los fundadores del cártel de Cali. Las fuerzas del bien son a veces las fuerzas del mal. En esta novela, Sergio Ramírez explora sus resquicios, por donde corre impetuosa la vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Director Bert Dixon, of the Nicaraguan Police Narcotics Department, investigate the disappearance of a woman. Their only clues are an abandoned yacht, a burned book, and a bloody shirt. They will weave an unbelievable web of espionage where the DEA and the Police Department's cleaning lady will have equal standing. In a novel where the forces of good are sometimes the forces of evil, Sergio Ramírez explores the cracks through which life runs through impetuously.

El cielo llora por mí (Spanish Edition)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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Juan de Juanes (Spanish Edition)

Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

Hatful of Tigers: Reflections on Art, Culture and Politics

To Bury Our Fathers: A Novel of Nicaragua (English and Spanish Edition)

To Bury Our Fathers: A Novel of Nicaragua (English and Spanish Edition)

Stories (Readers International)

Margarita, How Beautiful The Sea

Adiós muchachos / Goodbye, Fellows (Spanish Edition)

El cielo llora por mí (Spanish Edition)