Jorge Franco: 5 books

From one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant Paradise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious...

"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,...

Medellín, Colombia. Twee totaal verschillende werelden raken elkaar: die van de gefortuneerde Don Diego en zijn gezin, en die van bendeleider El Mono – ‘De Aap’. Aan de rand van de stad Medellín, omgeven door bomen en gehuld in mist, staat een kasteelachtig gebouw waar een blond meisje,...

n el primer semestre de 2010, la sede- Amazonia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia realizó la Cátedra de Sede Jorge Eliécer Gaitán titulada ?Amazonia colombiana. Imaginarios y realidades ". El presente libro reúne las memorias de la Cátedra en la cual participaron investigadores colombianos...

Experiments and theory have rapidly progressed on nonlinear optical extreme waves, showing that guided wave nonlinear optics and fiber lasers provide a relatively simple, accessible and controllable test bed for the observations and accurate statistical studies of extreme wave phenomena that obey...