November

November is a moving and unsettling fictional retelling of the murder of six Jesuit priests by the Salvadorian army in 1989 by rising star Jorge Galan.

Zusatztext Spare and moving Informationen zum Autor Jorge Galan was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1973. He is an Arts and Letters graduate of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA). He is a poet and writer and has received several literary awards, both national and internationally, including the Premio Nacional de Novela Corta (National Prize for Short Stories) and the Gran Maestre de Poesia Nacional de El Salvador, which he was awarded after receiving three National Poetry Prizes in 1996, 1998 and 1999. Klappentext WINNER OF THE PREMIO REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA November 1989. El Salvador is immersed in the horrors of a bloody civil war. Early one fateful morning a group of armed men enter a seminary and murder six Jesuit priests and two women in cold blood. In the days that follow, the new rector, Father Tojeira is forced to confront the society in which he lives and discover who these assassins are. The only witness, however, has been silenced by the authorities. Inspired by the tragic events that shook Latin America, November is a courageous and devastating account of how fear, hate and impunity can disfigure a country. November is a moving and unsettling fictional retelling of the murder of six Jesuit priests by the Salvadorian army in 1989 by rising star Jorge Galan. Zusammenfassung November is a moving and unsettling fictional retelling of the murder of six Jesuit priests by the Salvadorian army in 1989 by rising star Jorge Galan.

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Jorge Galan was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1973. He is an Arts and Letters graduate of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA). He is a poet and writer and has received several literary awards, both national and internationally, including the Premio Nacional de Novela Corta (National Prize for Short Stories) and the Gran Maestre de Poesia Nacional de El Salvador, which he was awarded after receiving three National Poetry Prizes in 1996, 1998 and 1999.

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WINNER OF THE PREMIO REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA

November 1989. El Salvador is immersed in the horrors of a bloody civil war.

Early one fateful morning a group of armed men enter a seminary and murder six Jesuit priests and two women in cold blood. In the days that follow, the new rector, Father Tojeira is forced to confront the society in which he lives and discover who these assassins are. The only witness, however, has been silenced by the authorities.

Inspired by the tragic events that shook Latin America, November is a courageous and devastating account of how fear, hate and impunity can disfigure a country.