Narco Literature
During the early years of the 1990 decade it began to appear in Colombian literature the reality of the drug and political hereditary violence. Titles like The Reader (La Lectora) by Sergio Álvarez and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco and Our Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios) by Fernando Vallejo began to portray the new fears and obsessions that the country had acquired at this stage of violence. Cities are the new scene of such violence, after many year of being told as rural case. Recently, there were published works which made a more extensive approach to the issue of drug trafficking and the involvement of it in the lives of Colombians. Works written by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Sergio Alvarez.
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