Poso Wells
By: Gabriela Alemán ; translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster
Contributors: Cluster, Dick, 1947- translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780872867550
Subjects: Politics and government; Disappeared persons; Death; Journalists; Presidential candidates; Translations into English; Fiction
Work titles: Poso Wells
Description: "In the squalid settlement of Poso Wells, women have been regularly disappearing, but the authorities have shown little interest. When the leading presidential candidate comes to town, he and his entourage are electrocuted in a macabre accident witnessed by a throng of astonished spectators. The sole survivor--next in line for the presidency--inexplicably disappears from sight. Gustavo Varas, a principled journalist, picks up the trail, which leads him into a violent, lawless underworld. Bella Altamirano, a fearless local, is on her own crusade to pierce the settlement's code of silence, ignoring repeated death threats. It turns out that the disappearance of the candidate and those of the women are intimately connected, and not just to a local crime wave, but to a multinational magnate's plan to plunder the country's cloud forest preserve."--
Notes: Translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: The cooperative of Poso Wells. The candidate ; Yesterday's papers ; The hole ; The scar ; Waiting forever for you ; Órale Pinche Güey ; A mass for the dead ; The spur; title: Amazonas and Naciones Unidas. Press conference ; Minefields express ; The bottom of the empty glass; title: The cloud forest. Checkmate ; The prosecutor ; The sovereign people ; Without you...