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De vloek van de groene stenen

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Guaqueros: dat zijn de door God en de mensheid verlaten desperado's die in de vroegere mijnen van Colombia naar Smaragden zoeken Hoewel de regering het voormalige mijnengebied streng laat bewaken, worden nog altijd honderden wanhopige avonturiers aangetrokken tot de ontoegankelijke, dodelijke wildernis. Ze leven in mensonwaardige omstandigheden, huizen in donker holen, hebben nauwelijks te eten en wroeten dag in dag uit met hun blote handen in de aarde, gedreven door een onstilbare zucht naar geld, naar snelle rijkdom, naar succes.
De Hamburgse arts dr. Peter Mohr gaat op verzoek van een vriend naar Colombia. In opdracht van de invloedrijke smaragdhandelaar Alfonso Camargo laat hij bij de mijnen een ziekenhuis bouwen. Camargo vraagt dr. Mohr ook voor hem te spioneren. Maar Pedro Morero, zoals Mohr door de guaqueros wordt genoemd, laat zich niet misbruiken. Hij heeft medelijden, hij wil helpen, genezen, zonder aanzien des persoons, zonder te discrimineren.
En dan ontmoet hij Margarit Pebas, de beeldschone dochter van een arme, in de bergen wonende smaragdzoeker...

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

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Heinz G. Konsalik

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Heinz G. Konsalik (pseudonym of Heinz Günther) was a German novelist.

Many of his books deal with war and showed the German human side of things as experienced by their soldiers and families at home, for instance Das geschenkte Gesicht (The Mutilated Face), which deals with a German soldier's recovery after his sledge ran over a personnel mine and destroyed his face, and how this affected his relationship with his wife at home. It places no judgment on the German position in the war and simply deals with human beings in often desperate situations, doing what they were forced to do under German military law.

Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) made him famous and was adapted into a movie in 1958. Some 83 million copies sold of his 155 novels made him the most popular German novelist of the postwar era and many of his novels were translated and sold through book clubs. He is buried in Cologne.

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February 2, 2015
uma leitura interessante, um tema curioso sobre a vida dura dos guaqueros que clandestinamente procuram esmeraldas nas profundezas das montanhas colombianas onde a lei do mais forte impera e onde a doença e a morte são o mais comum....a chegada do médico alemão DR. Mohr traz algum conforto à vida daquela gente que se empenha para que o hospital que irá apoiá-los seja uma realidade... realidade que acaba destruida pelas forças da Natureza....
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