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Damnificados: A Novel (Spectacular Fiction)
by Wilson, JJ Amaworo
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1629631175
- ISBN 13
- 9781629631172
- Seller
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Walla Walla, Washington, United States
25 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
PM Press, 2016-01-01. Paperback. New. Brand New; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973. Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred ?damnificados??vagabonds and misfits?take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical ?owners.?Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven?s Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse. The ghosts and miracles woven into the narrative are part of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present.
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- Bookseller
- Earthlight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1032213
- Title
- Damnificados: A Novel (Spectacular Fiction)
- Author
- Wilson, JJ Amaworo
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 25
- ISBN 10
- 1629631175
- ISBN 13
- 9781629631172
- Publisher
- PM Press
- Place of Publication
- Oakland, Ca
- Date Published
- 2016-01-01
Terms of Sale
Earthlight Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives erroneously described or damaged.
About the Seller
Earthlight Books
Biblio member since 2007
Walla Walla, Washington
About Earthlight Books
We are a family owned and operated full-service bookstore with a storefront located in Walla Walla, Washington and our online warehouse located in Olympia, Washington. Since 1973 we have been filling the literary needs of this wonderful community in the Walla Walla Valley. Over the past 48 years our shop here has become a staple of this vibrant local economy, a beautiful downtown scene and an informed intelligentsia. We sell books through our storefront, our website, and a book-mobile that travels to festivals and fairs.
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