Dead Men Cast No Shadows
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Volume Three of The Managua Trilogy, translated from the Spanish by Daryl R. Hague
978-1-62054-061-9, 286 pages, 5.5 x 8.5” paperback original
Publication date: September 1, 2023
Forcibly exiled to Honduras at the conclusion of No One Weeps for Me Now, Inspector Dolores Morales returns in Sergio Ramirez's final volume of The Managua Trilogy accompanied by a cast of brave priests, corrupt secret service agents, washed up former foot soldiers, and out-for-themselves vestiges of mid-century ideals, all colliding in this exuberant portrait of the depredations of oligarchs and dictators, the human cost of promises deferred, and the implacable hopes and resolve of Nicaraguans. In this riotous, damning, wide-awake Central American noir we witness the final gasps of revolutionary idealism quashed in the bloodshed of the 2018 student protests, where more than 400 were killed or injured. It was, and is, a tragedy of a scope that’s hard to comprehend, but with masterful irony Ramirez makes the desperation of those days more than a metaphor for a failed state—in his hands it’s a tribute to every instinct for self-preservation, freedom, and self-respect.
REVIEW: "A Thriller That's an Act of Political Courage"
NYTimes Author Profile: "A Nicaraguan Novelist Betrayed by the Revolution He Helped Build"
For Volume One, The Sky Weeps for Me, go here.
For Volume Two, No One Weeps for Me Now, go here.
978-1-62054-061-9, 286 pages, 5.5 x 8.5” paperback original
Publication date: September 1, 2023
Forcibly exiled to Honduras at the conclusion of No One Weeps for Me Now, Inspector Dolores Morales returns in Sergio Ramirez's final volume of The Managua Trilogy accompanied by a cast of brave priests, corrupt secret service agents, washed up former foot soldiers, and out-for-themselves vestiges of mid-century ideals, all colliding in this exuberant portrait of the depredations of oligarchs and dictators, the human cost of promises deferred, and the implacable hopes and resolve of Nicaraguans. In this riotous, damning, wide-awake Central American noir we witness the final gasps of revolutionary idealism quashed in the bloodshed of the 2018 student protests, where more than 400 were killed or injured. It was, and is, a tragedy of a scope that’s hard to comprehend, but with masterful irony Ramirez makes the desperation of those days more than a metaphor for a failed state—in his hands it’s a tribute to every instinct for self-preservation, freedom, and self-respect.
REVIEW: "A Thriller That's an Act of Political Courage"
NYTimes Author Profile: "A Nicaraguan Novelist Betrayed by the Revolution He Helped Build"
For Volume One, The Sky Weeps for Me, go here.
For Volume Two, No One Weeps for Me Now, go here.
“Dead Men Cast No Shadows is an enormously entertaining novel about responses to perfidy in high places by one of the most prominent writers in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a courageous act of political defiance; Ramírez has paid a painful price for simply putting pen to paper to tell the truth. . . . He examines a shameful period in Nicaraguan history through the lens of a police/detective yarn and he succeeds magnificently, weaving an intriguing narrative out of the return of valiant ‘Inspector’ Dolores Morales (the protagonist of The Managua Trilogy) to Nicaragua from exile in Honduras.”— Brooks Geikan, The Arts Fuse
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