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El Cadáver Insepulto

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Alape reconstruye de manera admirable un hecho historico luego de una exhaustiva investigacion que cuenta a traves de una impecable estructura narrativa y con un lenguaje preciso. Un relato policial y tragico de los conmienzos de la violencia en el pais, en una Bogota asfixiada por la confluencia de temores y miedos entrelazados. Una apasionate novela que rescata la memoria historica peridida.

322 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

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Arturo Álape

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July 23, 2017
"{...} desapareció el cadáver, y su historia es el comienzo en el país de la desaparición de cientos de restos, muchos de ellos descompuestos en la montaña, muchos de ellos arrojados a los ríos y comidos por oleadas de hambrientos peces, muchos de ellos devorados por ratas en alcantarillas de las ciudades, muchos de ellos vueltos añicos por las dentelladas de hormigas legionarias, muchos de ellos escondidos en las mazmorras de oscuras cárceles. El cadáver del capitán Ezequiel Toro será mortaja, ojos y restos del inmenso cadáver insepulto que rondará los próximos años la extensa geografía de un país que vislumbra como futuro la sombra gris de su propia mirada". Arturo Alape, 'El cadáver insepulto'.
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May 20, 2026
I started out loving this book. The plot and characters were revealed in a tantalizingly gradual way, which kept me eagerly turning pages to unravel the puzzle. I was deeply moved by the granular descriptions of things like the lynching of the murderer of rising political star Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and the inner thoughts of each of the two narrators. The power of the detail was like a documentary where the camera lingers for too long on an interview subject so that you really have to take into account their story. The author's determination to describing the work of the in-house censor assigned to the newspaper where one of the narrators worked was also fabulously detailed, to great effect.

But by the second half of the book, the suspense was gone and the detail became drudgery. If an editor had cut the page length in half, it would be have a perfect book.
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