Our Lady of the Assassins (novel)
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Our Lady of the Assassins (Spanish title: La virgen de los sicarios) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Fernando Vallejo about a Colombian author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare. The novel was later adapted into a film.
A growing body of scholarship and critical commentary already exist about this controversial work, most of it in Spanish. The brief sections below attempt to give the reader a basic understanding of some of the main approaches to what undoubtedly is a central work in Colombian fiction of the 1990s, and perhaps the most elaborated and discussed fictional work dealing with events related to the drug trade and its deleterious consequences in Colombian society.
