by Germán Castro Caycedo · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408031536
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«La noche de las lanzas: Muerte de un obispo español en el Amazonas» is the non-fiction book by Germán Castro Caycedo, published by Planeta in paperback.
The work recounts the murder of Spanish bishop Alejandro Labaca Ugarte in the Amazon rainforest. It places the crime within the framework of the Capuchin mission among the Huaorani indigenous people in Ecuador and portrays the tensions surrounding the evangelizing presence in the territory.
Published in 1999; 299 pages. Text in Spanish. Winner of the Rodolfo Walsh Prize at the Semana Negra de Gijón 1999. Includes bibliographical references.
For a general audience interested in history, missions in the Amazon and cultural conflicts in the jungle.
Germán Castro Caycedo was a Colombian journalist and writer. Castro Caycedo's topics revolve around the Colombian reality, under the parameters of the cultural identity and its social and economic phenomena.
