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Author : Héctor Abad, Anne McLean

Date : 2013-05-14

Page : 273

Rating : 4.5

Reviews : 25

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Oblivion A Memoir Héctor Abad Anne McLean Rosalind  ~ Although titled Oblivion A Memoir this book is much more than just a son’s reflections about his father Through it Héctor Abad Faciolince provides the reader with an intimate portrait of the human rights’ struggle in Colombia over his father’s lifetime as well as a wakeup call to a world wracked by violence
Oblivion A Memoir by Héctor Abad Faciolince ~ 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
Oblivion A Memoir  World Literature Today ~ The narrator—first as a young boy next as an adolescent then as a man—who recounts the life of the astounding activist does so with an honesty and clearsightedness that eschews sentimentality The memoir begins with “In the house lived ten women one boy and a man” and ends with “
‘Oblivion’ a Memoir by Héctor Abad  The New York Times ~ “Oblivion” is a searing memoir written with love and blood both family blood the kind that’s thicker than water and the spilled blood of barbarism and murder From the first pages we feel the internal necessity driving this story It is obvious that Héctor Abad had no choice but to tell it — 
Oblivion A Memoir by Héctor Abad review  SFGate ~ Colombia is ready to name the dead because it knows that to forget ones past is to be doomed by it One such admirable effort at speaking the unspeakable at verbalizing the pain accumulated 
Oblivion A Memoir by Héctor Abad Faciolince  review  ~ Oblivion is a memoir of filial devotion Abad distils the bond of love between father and son in a family dominated by women to its purest essence But the unbounded paternal love of his childhood is made cruelly poignant by the knowledge of its future loss
Oblivion A Memoir  Foreign Affairs ~ Oblivion A Memoir Farrar Straus and Giroux 2012 272 pp 2600 Purchase The author’s father a distinguished physician and prominent human rights activist was gunned down in 1987 in Medellín Colombia by one of the rightwing death squads that operated with impunity in the country at that time
Oblivion A memoir – Héctor Abad Faciolince ~ A memoir 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