Evelio Rosero in conversation with Nahum Villamil

A shower of priests

Cartagena 2026, Friday 30 January 2026

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.