by Sergio Ramírez · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465975
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«Sombras nada más» is the political intrigue novel by Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, published by Alfaguara in paperback (376 pages, in Spanish).
Nicaragua, 1979. Alirio Martinica, former private secretary to dictator Somoza, tries to flee by sea and is captured by Sandinista Front fighters. Brought to a people's trial, he argues in his defense that as a young man he dreamed of a bloodless revolution and that he hid a Sandinista commander in his house.
The edition published on February 19, 2003 belongs to the Hispánica collection.
For readers of political thrillers and suspense, with an interest in the history of Nicaragua and Latin American literature.
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.
