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1947: A mob tears the city of Bogota to shreds…
Breakfast in Bogota
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Bogotá, 1947. British architect Luke Vosey has left his past behind to undertake a commission for Anglo-Colombian Oil in South America. For Luke, this new venture seems to offer the chance to start again. But grieving and ashamed of his role in the war, he cannot run from the past or from his nightmares.
Luke finds distraction with the whores of Las Cruces and in the friendship of a young newspaper journalist and finally with Felisa, a young draughtswoman with a passion for politics. Through her, Luke comes to understand the true broken mood of the people of Colombia, with the country teetering on the brink of civil war. Then a bloody assassination on the streets of the capital sees everything he s worked for destroyed.
As the mob tears the city to shreds, and Luke s past is unveiled, can he survive to save others?
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Travel to Bogota BookTrail style and have breakfast in Bogota
Oh the city more than shines through in this book!
“…he enjoyed walking the city. One moment, the sun on your back seared with a tropical heat that left you sweating, then the next you were reminded of the altitude, all eight thousand six hundred feet of it. Bogota never let you forget it was planted high on a plateau so that the cool mountain air turned all that heat to ice, often leaving you feverish and shivering.”
‘’The night was crisp and filled with the sound of a thousand crickets and above this, an indigo sky purpled the horizon. Here, it might be possible to forget the city with its cramped streets and wild order.’’
The book is also an insight into the mass riot following the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán the Liberal Leader and Presidential Candidate and left us at the starting point of La Violence in 1948. The book looks closely at the ten year Civil War in Colombia which took place from 1948 to 1958.
The book gives insights into the plight of the people of Colombia during this tumultuous time.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Breakfast in Bogota
Destination/location: Bogota Author/guide: Helen Young Departure Time: 1948
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