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Sueños en cenizas

Sueños en cenizas

Edelmiro Franco V

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2015
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9781326427214
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Sueños en cenizas. 12 de mayo de 1922, nace la abuela Aura en San Roque, un pueblo ultraconservador en el noroeste de Colombia, y muere el 6 de junio de 2012, después de cumplir 90 años, en una clínica en Medellín, la ciudad que albergó a miles de familias campesinas que huyeron de la violencia liberal- conservadora en la década de los años 50 del siglo pasado. La abuela Aura, un día después de una delicada cirugía, estaba completamente lucida y sonriente en la habitación 325 de la clínica Las Américas. Ella cargaba con sus 90 años, un cúmulo de historias de violencia desde 1946: persecuciones, desplazamientos, guerrilla, narcotráfico y paramilitarismo. Entre abrazos, besos y lágrimas con su hijo Jesús -quien llegó del exilio- la abuela empieza a recordar su pasado y cierra el diálogo con la frase: -Mijo, ¿si cree que tengamos paz algún día...?

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