Feast of the innocents
By: Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean & Anna Milsom
Contributors: McLean, Anne, 1962- translator; Milsom, Anna., translator
Publisher: MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781623657246
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Physicians; Festivals; Fiction; History
Work titles: Carroza de Bolívar
Description: Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal. In Pasto, south Colombia, where the good doctor plies his trade, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents is dawning. A day for pranks, jokes and soakings ...Water bombs, poisoned empanaditas, ground glass in the hog roast--anything goes. What better day to commission a float for The Black and White Carnival that will explode the myth of El Libertador once and for all? One that will lay bare the massacres, betrayals and countless deflowerings that history has forgotten. But in Colombia you question the founding fables at your peril. At the frenzied peak of the festivities, drunk on a river of arguardiente, Doctor Justo will discover that this year the joke might just be on him.
Notes: "Winner: English Pen Award" -- cover.

Translated from the Spanish.

Originally published : Barcelona, Tusquets Editore, 2012, under title: La carroza de Bolívar.