Event 21
Evelio Rosero in conversation with Nahum Villamil
A shower of priests
Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona)
In his most recent novel, Lluvia de frailes en la selva, Evelio Rosero places his protagonists, a group of friars, in the rainforest. Their goal is to evangelise a remote indigenous tribe. However, all this is a trap laid by the army: the soldiers want to make the priests disappear and blame the “cannibal barbarians”, and so have an excuse to invade. The book’s style is, once again, in that which Rosero has made his own: in which the inhospitable and violence live together with memory, the real and the dreamlike.
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