Dead Men Cast No Shadows
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Translated from the Spanish (Tongolele no sabía bailar) by Daryl R. Hague
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.
"This wrenching political thriller is a thinly veiled critique of the Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega and his brutal repression of large-scale protests in 2018. Ramírez’s hard-hitting novel has been banned in Nicaragua, and Ortega has stripped the prolific, high-profile author of his Nicaraguan citizenship. . . .His vivid, well-drawn characters—often former revolutionary fighters—have turned opportunistic, deceitful, even savage. His stinging takedowns of Ortega’s wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, and of a former guerrilla commander, Edén Pastora, hit their marks. . . . Ortega’s relentless concentration of power has brutalized Nicaragua and darkened the imagination of one of its most creative minds."—Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs
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Arts Fuse 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 1, paperback The Sky Weeps for Me, go here.
For Volume 2, paperback No One Weeps for Me Now, go here.
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