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Published Nov 2022
288 pages
Genre: Mysteries
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Years after his unceremonious firing from the National Police for an act of heroic insubordination recounted in The Sky Weeps for Me (2020), Inspector Dolores Morales - scraping by as a private investigator - finds himself summoned before a powerful Nicaraguan oligarch, Miguel Soto, whose step-daughter has gone missing.
Morales is summarily given the lucrative if daunting task of finding her with only her name and two photographs, and three days to complete the search. But thanks to the intrepid Dona Sofia's ingenuity, and the watchful if ethereal presence of former partner Bert Dixon―as well as a host of colorful if reluctant confederates enlisted from among Managua's demimonde―Morales methodically untangles a scandal of national proportions. As his unwelcome discoveries attract the personal animosity of Nicaragua's director of national intelligence, the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Morales confronts a painful dilemma. Sergio Ramirez's second volume of the Managua Trilogy is infused with his mastery of complex narrative, sharp characterization, ironic humor, and ethos of human resilience. The venality and lust for power underlying the recent history of Nicaragua are vividly brought to life in No One Weeps for Me Now.
"Ramirez again combines a taut thriller plot with a searing portrayal of Nicaragua and elements of magical realism with the brilliant second volume of his Managua Trilogy...Ramirez vividly depicts the mean streets and peppers the perfectly hardboiled crime saga with wonderfully strange details, such as a man 'carrying an Uzi as if cradling a doll.' Readers will eagerly await the conclusion." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"What makes [No One Weeps for Me Now] a page-turner is not its plot twists but the delightfully unique individuals Morales encounters in his probe. A playful crime yarn that lands like Raymond Chandler reimagined by Almodóvar." - Kirkus Reviews
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Sergio Ramírez was born in Masatepe, Nicaragua in 1942. His first book was published in 1963; the following year he earned a law degree at the University of Nicaragua. After a lengthy voluntary exile in Costa Rica and Germany ― during which he continued to write works of fiction and nonfiction ― he became active as the leader of the Group of Twelve, consisting of intellectuals, businessmen and priests united against the Somoza regime. With the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction, where he presided over the National Council of Education. He was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in 1984, an office he held until 1990. He continued to serve as the leader of the Sandinista block in the National Assembly until 1995, when he founded the Movement for Sandinista Renovation (MRS) because of his disaffection for Daniel Ortega.
In 1996 he retired from politics. Sergio Ramírez is the author of thirty books, only a handful of which have been translated into English. He has received Spain's Dashiel Hammet Award, France's Laure Bataillon Award, Cuba's José María Arguedas Latinamerican Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Alfaguara International Novel Award. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France, and a doctor honoris causa of Blaise Pascal University (France), he is also a recipient of the International Prize for Human Rights awarded by the Bruno Kreisky Foundation, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Government of Germany. He held the Robert Kennedy Professorship in Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2009.
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