- Assassins, Fiction, Fiction, suspense, Colombia, fiction
An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
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Grave, contemporary, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Fernando Vallejo, Fernando Vallejo
- First published
- May 1, 1995
- Pages
- 142
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail, Suma de Letras, Alfaguara
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- heb, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788466368506
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Fernando Vallejo Rendón (born 1942 in Medellín, Colombia) is a novelist, filmmaker and essayist, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007. **Source**: [Fernando Vallejo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Vallejo) on Wikipedia.
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