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- Book Title
- Oblivion : a Memoir
- Publication Name
- Oblivion
- Title
- Oblivion
- Subtitle
- A Memoir
- ISBN-10
- 0374533938
- EAN
- 9780374533939
- ISBN
- 9780374533939
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 14/05/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 9.5 Oz
- Translator
- Rosalind Harvey
- Contributor
- Rosalind Harvey (Translated by)
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / Political Advocacy, Medical, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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"An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El Pa s H ctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, H ctor Abad G mez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374533938
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9780374533939
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Book Title
Oblivion : a Memoir
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Trade Paperback
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English
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Political Process / Political Advocacy, Medical, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
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I store up what I have read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime., A family memoir that deserves classic status . . . [Abad] not only pays radiant homage to a hero but champions the path of peaceful change he so steadfastly took., [ Oblivion ] emits a primal yet articulate howl . . . Mr. Abad's prose, in this translation by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey, is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb 'to remember' is 'recordar,' the author reminds us, a word that derives from 'cor,' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting., "It is very difficult to summarize Oblivion without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author's family and father-who was murdered by a hired assassin-is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence, into the life and soul of the city of MedellÃn, into the private life and public courage of a family, a true story that is also a superb fiction due to the way it is written and constructed, and one of the most eloquent arguments written in our time or any time against terror as an instrument of political action."- Mario Vargas Llosa "[ Oblivion ] emits a primal yet articulate howl . . . Mr. Abad's prose, in this translation by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey, is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb 'to remember' is 'recordar,' the author reminds us, a word that derives from 'cor,' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting."- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Héctor Abad's extraordinary memoir Oblivion . It's been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . I confess not to have known of [Abad] before, even though this is his second book translated into English. This ignorance was actually beneficial, for it allowed me to submerge myself in the narrative without preconception. I emerged from that submersion hypnotized. Oblivion will remind you in equal measure of Vittorio de Sica's Italian neo-Realist movie The Bicycle Thief and Elie Wiesel's Holocaust novel Night . . . [Abad's] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor."- Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle "A family memoir that deserves classic status . . . [Abad] not only pays radiant homage to a hero but champions the path of peaceful change he so steadfastly took."- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it."- Javier Cercas "A beautiful and profoundly moving work."- El PaÃs "[ Oblivion ] is a shattering chronicle of Colombia's violence. But it is also an inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love."- Giles Tremlett, The Guardian "A beautiful, authentic, and moving book."- Rosa Montero "[A] great and deeply moving testament."- Kate Saunders , The Times (London) "An unbearably moving, eloquent tribute to the author's father-who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987-that is fit to burst with love and pride." - Holly Kyte, The Telegraph "I store up what I have read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime."- Manuel Rivas "Colombian author Abad dedicates this loving and sentimental memoir to his father, Héctor Abad Gómez, a professor and doctor devoted to his family, "moved to tears…by poetry and music," and committed to a better Colombia. The latter aspiration cost him his life when he was assassinated in 1987, and his son began writing this book five years later. Abad spends much of the book expressing his love for his father, but it is his discussion of Gómez''s public health and human rights projects-such as founding "the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing, which built aqueducts and sewer systems in villages, rural districts, and cities"-that reveals what a remarkable educator, reformer, and activist the senior Abad was, and how his assassination was a tragedy for a family and a nation."- Publishers Weekly, "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." -Javier Cercas "A heartrending memoir of the author's family and father [and] a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence." -Mario Vargas Llosa, [An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Héctor Abad's extraordinary memoir Oblivion . It's been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . I confess not to have known of [Abad] before, even though this is his second book translated into English. This ignorance was actually beneficial, for it allowed me to submerge myself in the narrative without preconception. I emerged from that submersion hypnotized. Oblivion will remind you in equal measure of Vittorio de Sica's Italian neo-Realist movie The Bicycle Thief and Elie Wiesel's Holocaust novel Night . . . [Abad's] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor., "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." -Javier Cercas"A heartrending memoir of the author's family and father [and] a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence." -Mario Vargas Llosa, "It is very difficult to summarize Oblivion without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author''s family and father--who was murdered by a hired assassin--is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence, into the life and soul of the city of Medelln, into the private life and public courage of a family, a true story that is also a superb fiction due to the way it is written and constructed, and one of the most eloquent arguments written in our time or any time against terror as an instrument of political action." -- Mario Vargas Llosa "[ Oblivion ] emits a primal yet articulate howl . . . Mr. Abad''s prose, in this translation by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey, is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb ''to remember'' is ''recordar,'' the author reminds us, a word that derives from ''cor,'' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Hctor Abad''s extraordinary memoir Oblivion . It''s been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . I confess not to have known of [Abad] before, even though this is his second book translated into English. This ignorance was actually beneficial, for it allowed me to submerge myself in the narrative without preconception. I emerged from that submersion hypnotized. Oblivion will remind you in equal measure of Vittorio de Sica''s Italian neo-Realist movie The Bicycle Thief and Elie Wiesel''s Holocaust novel Night . . . [Abad''s] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor." -- Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle "A family memoir that deserves classic status . . . [Abad] not only pays radiant homage to a hero but champions the path of peaceful change he so steadfastly took." -- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." -- Javier Cercas "A beautiful and profoundly moving work." -- El Pas "[ Oblivion ] is a shattering chronicle of Colombia''s violence. But it is also an inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love." -- Giles Tremlett, The Guardian "A beautiful, authentic, and moving book." -- Rosa Montero "[A] great and deeply moving testament." -- Kate Saunders , The Times (London) "An unbearably moving, eloquent tribute to the author''s father--who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987--that is fit to burst with love and pride." -- Holly Kyte, The Telegraph "I store up what I have read by Hctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime." -- Manuel Rivas "Colombian author Abad dedicates this loving and sentimental memoir to his father, Hctor Abad Gmez, a professor and doctor devoted to his family, "moved to tears...by poetry and music," and committed to a better Colombia. The latter aspiration cost him his life when he was assassinated in 1987, and his son began writing this book five years later. Abad spends much of the book expressing his love for his father, but it is his discussion of Gmez''s public health and human rights projects--such as founding "the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing, which built aqueducts and sewer systems in villages, rural districts, and cities"--that reveals what a remarkable educator, reformer, and activist the senior Abad was, and how his assassination was a tragedy for a family and a nation." -- Publishers Weekly, It is very difficult to summarize Oblivion without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author's family and father--who was murdered by a hired assassin--is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence, into the life and soul of the city of Medellín, into the private life and public courage of a family, a true story that is also a superb fiction due to the way it is written and constructed, and one of the most eloquent arguments written in our time or any time against terror as an instrument of political action., "It is very difficult to summarize Oblivion without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author's family and father-who was murdered by a hired assassin-is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence, into the life and soul of the city of MedellÃn, into the private life and public courage of a family, a true story that is also a superb fiction due to the way it is written and constructed, and one of the most eloquent arguments written in our time or any time against terror as an instrument of political action." - Mario Vargas Llosa "[ Oblivion ] emits a primal yet articulate howl . . . Mr. Abad's prose, in this translation by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey, is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb 'to remember' is 'recordar,' the author reminds us, a word that derives from 'cor,' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Héctor Abad's extraordinary memoir Oblivion . It's been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . I confess not to have known of [Abad] before, even though this is his second book translated into English. This ignorance was actually beneficial, for it allowed me to submerge myself in the narrative without preconception. I emerged from that submersion hypnotized. Oblivion will remind you in equal measure of Vittorio de Sica's Italian neo-Realist movie The Bicycle Thief and Elie Wiesel's Holocaust novel Night . . . [Abad's] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor." - Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle "A family memoir that deserves classic status . . . [Abad] not only pays radiant homage to a hero but champions the path of peaceful change he so steadfastly took." - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." - Javier Cercas "A beautiful and profoundly moving work." - El PaÃs "[ Oblivion ] is a shattering chronicle of Colombia's violence. But it is also an inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love." - Giles Tremlett, The Guardian "A beautiful, authentic, and moving book." - Rosa Montero "[A] great and deeply moving testament." - Kate Saunders , The Times (London) "An unbearably moving, eloquent tribute to the author's father-who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987-that is fit to burst with love and pride." - Holly Kyte, The Telegraph "I store up what I have read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime."- Manuel Rivas "Colombian author Abad dedicates this loving and sentimental memoir to his father, Héctor Abad Gómez, a professor and doctor devoted to his family, "moved to tears…by poetry and music," and committed to a better Colombia. The latter aspiration cost him his life when he was assassinated in 1987, and his son began writing this book five years later. Abad spends much of the book expressing his love for his father, but it is his discussion of Gómez''s public health and human rights projects-such as founding "the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing, which built aqueducts and sewer systems in villages, rural districts, and cities"-that reveals what a remarkable educator, reformer, and activist the senior Abad was, and how his assassination was a tragedy for a family and a nation."- Publishers Weekly, "It is very difficult to summarize Oblivion without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author''s family and father--who was murdered by a hired assassin--is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion into the inferno of Colombian political violence, into the life and soul of the city of Medellín, into the private life and public courage of a family, a true story that is also a superb fiction due to the way it is written and constructed, and one of the most eloquent arguments written in our time or any time against terror as an instrument of political action." -- Mario Vargas Llosa "[ Oblivion ] emits a primal yet articulate howl . . . Mr. Abad''s prose, in this translation by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey, is elastic and alive . . . In Spanish the verb ''to remember'' is ''recordar,'' the author reminds us, a word that derives from ''cor,'' the Latin for heart. This memoir is extravagantly big-hearted. It will be stocked, in good bookstores, in the nonfiction or belles-lettres sections. A wise owner might also place a copy under the sign that more simply reads: Parenting." -- Dwight Garner, The New York Times "[An] admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable, at verbalizing the pain accumulated over decades, is Héctor Abad''s extraordinary memoir Oblivion . It''s been years since I read such a powerful meditation on loss . . . I confess not to have known of [Abad] before, even though this is his second book translated into English. This ignorance was actually beneficial, for it allowed me to submerge myself in the narrative without preconception. I emerged from that submersion hypnotized. Oblivion will remind you in equal measure of Vittorio de Sica''s Italian neo-Realist movie The Bicycle Thief and Elie Wiesel''s Holocaust novel Night . . . [Abad''s] desire to explore the echoes of memory with meticulous care, to touch the wound of the past through lucid prose, is an act of valor." -- Ilan Stavans, San Francisco Chronicle "A family memoir that deserves classic status . . . [Abad] not only pays radiant homage to a hero but champions the path of peaceful change he so steadfastly took." -- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it." -- Javier Cercas "A beautiful and profoundly moving work." -- El País "[ Oblivion ] is a shattering chronicle of Colombia''s violence. But it is also an inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love." -- Giles Tremlett, The Guardian "A beautiful, authentic, and moving book." -- Rosa Montero "[A] great and deeply moving testament." -- Kate Saunders , The Times (London) "An unbearably moving, eloquent tribute to the author''s father--who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987--that is fit to burst with love and pride." -- Holly Kyte, The Telegraph "I store up what I have read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime." -- Manuel Rivas "Colombian author Abad dedicates this loving and sentimental memoir to his father, Héctor Abad Gómez, a professor and doctor devoted to his family, "moved to tears...by poetry and music," and committed to a better Colombia. The latter aspiration cost him his life when he was assassinated in 1987, and his son began writing this book five years later. Abad spends much of the book expressing his love for his father, but it is his discussion of Gómez''s public health and human rights projects--such as founding "the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing, which built aqueducts and sewer systems in villages, rural districts, and cities"--that reveals what a remarkable educator, reformer, and activist the senior Abad was, and how his assassination was a tragedy for a family and a nation." -- Publishers Weekly, [ Oblivion ] is a shattering chronicle of Colombia's violence. But it is also an inspiring tribute to tolerance and paternal love., An unbearably moving, eloquent tribute to the author's father--who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987--that is fit to burst with love and pride., Colombian author Abad dedicates this loving and sentimental memoir to his father, Héctor Abad Gómez, a professor and doctor devoted to his family, "moved to tears...by poetry and music," and committed to a better Colombia. The latter aspiration cost him his life when he was assassinated in 1987, and his son began writing this book five years later. Abad spends much of the book expressing his love for his father, but it is his discussion of Gómez's public health and human rights projects--such as founding "the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing, which built aqueducts and sewer systems in villages, rural districts, and cities"--that reveals what a remarkable educator, reformer, and activist the senior Abad was, and how his assassination was a tragedy for a family and a nation., A tremendous and necessary book, devastatingly courageous and honest. At times I wondered how [Abad] was brave enough to write it.
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