EAN: 9781646221615

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An exhilarating travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia's Magdalena River exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk and how a country recovers from conflict. Richly observed. -Liesl Schillinger The New York Times Book Review An American writer of Argentine Syrian and Iraqi Jewish descent Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena nearly one thousand miles long the heart of Colombia. This is Gabriel García Márquez's territory-rumor has it Macondo was partly inspired by the port town of Mompox-as much as that of the Middle Eastern immigrants who run fabric stores by its banks. Following the river from its source high in the Andes to its mouth on the Caribbean coast journeying by boat bus and improvised motobalinera Salama writes against stereotype and toward the rich lives of those he meets. Among them are a canoe builder biologists who study invasive hippopotamuses a Queens transplant managing a failing hotel a jeweler practicing the art of silver filigree and a traveling librarian whose donkeys Alfa and Beto haul books to rural children. Joy mourning and humor come together in this astonishing debut about a country too often seen as only a site of war and a tale of lively adventure following a legendary river.

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