by Sergio Ramírez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420419206
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«Sara» is the biblical novel by Sergio Ramírez, published by Alfaguara in paperback (249 pages, in Spanish).
It recreates the biblical story of Sarah and Abraham from her point of view, with irony and humor. It narrates the couple's pilgrimage through hostile lands as they follow the instructions Abraham receives from Yahweh, and the announcement that the elderly and barren Sarah will give birth to a son; it presents her as a lucid, stubborn woman capable of questioning divine designs.
The novel belongs to the Narrativa Hispánica collection. It was originally published in 2015; Sergio Ramírez is a Nicaraguan writer.
For readers of Latin American narrative interested in fiction inspired by the Bible.
Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega. He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer". Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.
