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The 2007 Award

 

 

 

Queen Cocaine by Nuria Amat


 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Galway County Library,Galway, Ireland

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition
City Lights Publishers ISBN 0872864359

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK
Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerrillas, and the drug traffickers spin a perilous web in which the three main characters who inhabit this novel are caught: Rat, a young Catalan woman who has recently arrived in Colombia; Aida, a local visionary who is adept at weaving spells, and Wilson, a writer and journalist persecuted because of his ideas and tormented by his own frustrations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nuria Amat was born in Barcelona, where she now lives. She regularly contributes to the Spanish press and is the author of novels, stories, and essays.


 

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