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...Amelina was dining at the restaurant with journalist Catalina Gómez, the writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and Colombia’s former high commissioner for peace Sergio Jaramillo, who had come to Ukraine as part...
...The Farm , by Héctor Abad, translated by Anne McLean, World Editions, RRP£12.99/ Archipelago, RRP$20 When his mother’s death brings him back to the family farm in Colombia, Antonio Angel must confront the...
...Somebody sent me an amazing book called Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad, which I have just finished, about a man growing up in Colombia when its political problems were at their height....
...“If Uribe were in office, he would have signed the same peace deal with the Farc,” Héctor Abad Faciolince, an essayist, wrote in El Espectador....
...father Hector Abad Gomez, a doctor and human rights activist who was assassinated on a Medellín street and found by his wife and son....
...Later, I have a beer and take-out chorizo with the novelist Héctor Abad in Palinuro, a tiny book shop that he opened downtown with friends....
...Following his death on October 7, Héctor Abad Faciolince, a member of the editorial board, wrote how Santo Domingo saw the newspaper as a “pillar of freedom, democracy and free thought”....
...The courage of Héctor Abad Gómez also shone most brightly as he approached his death....
...I have also been carrying around the beautifully written and heartbreaking Oblivion: A Memoir by Colombian author Héctor Abad, about his father’s politically transformative life and murder....
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