Books by Hector Abad
The Farm
by unknown author, Tom Rob Smith, Wendell Berry, Hector Abad
The international bestseller from the author of phenomenal Child 44 trilogy?Ķ
The Farm
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son.
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes.
Your mother...she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital.
Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.
Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.
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The Farm
by unknown author, Tom Rob Smith, Wendell Berry, Hector Abad
Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today.
Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have had to face the siege of violence and terror, restlessness and flight.
In The Farm, Héctor Abad illuminates the vicissitudes of a family and of a people, as well as of the voices of these three siblings, recounting their loves, fears, desires, and hopes, all against a dazzling backdrop. We enter their lives at the moment when they are about to lose the paradise on which they built their dreams and their reality.
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The Farm
by unknown author, Tom Rob Smith, Wendell Berry, Hector Abad
The international bestseller from the author of phenomenal Child 44 trilogy?Ķ
The Farm
If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son.
Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden. But with a single phone call, everything changes.
Your mother...she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. She's had a psychotic breakdown, and been committed to a mental hospital.
Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow.
Caught between his parents, and unsure of who to believe or trust, Daniel becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury as she tells him an urgent tale of secrets, of lies, of a crime and a conspiracy that implicates his own father.
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The Farm
by unknown author, Tom Rob Smith, Wendell Berry, Hector Abad
A collector's edition, and the perfect gift for the stalwart Wendell Berry fan
First printed in 1995 by Gray Zeitz of the beloved Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, this gift edition is a beautiful reproduction of Wendell Berry’s book-length poem, illustrated with the original drawings by Carolyn Whitesel.
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$20.00
The Farm
by unknown author, Tom Rob Smith, Wendell Berry, Hector Abad
Farms are such exciting places for children to learn about and The Farm is a perfect way of introducing children to what they might find there. The book explains how much of the food we eat comes from a farm. Children will learn all about the various animals that live on the farm, how we take care of them and how they help feed and clothe us. Also described are the type of fruits, vegetables and grains that can be grown, how they are harvested and how they can be used to make other foods like bread and pie.
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Recipes for Sad Women (Pushkin Collection)
by Hector Abad
No one knows the recipe for happinessand yet Héctor Abad offers us a whole volume. His recipes, at times bizarre, at times wise, appear able to cure almost anything. With ingenuity and subtle humor, Abad proffers practical advice on how to eschew sadness, attract joy, and retain delight.
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Oblivion: A Memoir
by Hector Abad
Now the basis for the acclaimed film Memories of My Father, directed by Fernando Trueba.
"An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." ―El País
Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, 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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Aside from My Heart, All is Well
by Hector Abad
His biggest book since Oblivion, Héctor Abad’s humane voice buoys the spirit and reminds us of the value of human connection and the power of art.
"Mr. Abad’s prose is elastic and alive . . . [His writing] is extravagantly big-hearted."— Dwight Garner on Oblivion, The New York Times
Luis Cordóba, also known as Gordo, leads an unconventional life. His vocation as a priest has not stopped him from becoming a film critic, teacher, opera enthusiast, and passionate nibbler of chocolate and pepperoni. He lives in his childhood home in downtown Medellín with another priest, Aurelio Sánchez, or Lelo, among a slew of pets (war-mongering fish, a toucan, and parakeets aren't the half of it). It is Lelo who shades in these details, writing across time to the day in 1996 when life changed. At fifty, Gordo learns he needs a heart transplant. He is forbidden from climbing stairs, and so he moves into a different neighborhood with a friend, her housekeeper, and their children. With the briskness of sunshine drying out wet clothes, and air rushing through and renewing old places, Lelo reflects on Gordo's new era of thinking and feeling.
Luis Cordóba is inspired by the life of the priest and film critic Luis Alberto Alvarez, a friend of Héctor Abad's, and an important figure in Colombian cultural spheres. To keep Aside from My Heart, All is Well from becoming a biography, Abad drew on a range of sources to conjure up Cordóba, a person who both is and is not Alberto Alvarez.
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$25.00