Tales from the Town of Widows

<p>One Sunday morning a band of guerrillas comes to Mariquita and takes all the men away leaving behind only the priest and a fair-skinned boy disguised as a little girl. Without men the small Colombian mountain village becomes a sinking wasteland filled with women resigned to food shortages littered streets and mourning. But Rosalba viuda de Patiño wife of the former police sergeant envisions a different future for the town of widows. Declaring herself magistrate she promises to instill law and order and restore the failing economy and infrastructure--and proceeds to create a utopia far greater than any revolutionary's imagined ideal society.</p><p>Deft rich and darkly humorous <em>Tales from the Town of Widows</em> marks the arrival of an unforgettable new literary talent.</p>