Night Prayers
โ Scribed by Santiago Gamboa; Howard Curtis
- Book ID
- 109014224
- Publisher
- Europa
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781609453220
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok and accused of drug trafficking. Unless he enters a guilty plea he will almost certainly be sentenced to death. But it is not his own death that weighs most heavily on him but a tender longing for his sister, Juana, whom he hasn't seen for years. Before he dies he wants nothing more than to be reunited with her.
As a boy, Manuel was a dreamer, a lover of literature, and a tagger. Juana made a promise to do everything in her power to protect him from the drug-and violence-infested streets of Bogotรก. She decided to take him as far from Colombia as possible, and in order to raise the money to do so, she went to work as a high priced escort and entered into contact with the dangerous world of corrupt politicians. When things spun out of control she was forced to flee, leaving her beloved brother behind.
Juana and Manuel's story reaches the ears of the Colombian counsel general in New Delhi, and he tracks down Juana,...
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