Product Details:
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN-10: 0061140384
ISBN-13: 9780061140389
Sku: 202836617
Publish Date: 1/1/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9H x 6.5L x 1.25T
Pages:
340
Age Range:
NA
See more in Literary
| After their men are kidnapped by communist guerillas, the women of a mountain village in Colombia learn how to survive and create a peaceful new community. Four of the men return years later, forcing the women to negotiate between past and present, custom and independence. |
|
From the Publisher:
Left behind when their husbands are forcibly recruited to fight in a civil war, the women of a small Colombian village struggle to overcome centuries of tradition to survive, a process through which they eventually create a peaceful new community that is thrown into turmoil when the men return four years later. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. |












