| #469354 in Books | Siete Cuentos | 2004-01-06 | 2004-01-06 | Original language:Spanish | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.50 x5.50l,.40 | File type: PDF | 165 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very poor plot, just sordid sex descriptions|By Julia S|Hmmm....I was expecting a very twisted plot but the novel simply traces the troubled life of a woman as a man who loves her in secret waits outside the OR as she is in surgery. Very poor plot, just sordid sex descriptions, then drugs, then more sex... and how everyone was so fascinated by this woman. I understand she's a r|From Publishers Weekly|The American debut by award-winning Colombian novelist Franco is an energetic but awkward combination of As I Lay Dying and a Quentin Tarantino splatter-fest-a slim novel that leans more toward the latter's B-movie violence than Faulkner's
"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Rosario Tijeras (Spanish) | Jorge Franco. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
