by Fernando Vallejo · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466368506
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«La virgen de los sicarios» is the novel by Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
After thirty years of exile, a writer returns to Medellín and meets Alexis, a teenage hitman. Between emptying churches and an overcrowded morgue, they traverse a city ruled by crime and impunity, where hired killers are adolescents. With corrosive irony, the novel speaks of love, death, and social decay.
The work was originally published in 1994 and was adapted into a movie by Barbet Schroeder with a screenplay by the author himself.
For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction seeking stories about urban violence in Medellín.
Fernando Vallejo Rendón is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican citizenship in 2007.
