The story of a group of young people who arrive in Bogotá from different regions of the country and suffer firsthand the cruelty of violence in Colombia for thinking differently from the establishment is the central theme of ‘Let no one ask about me’, the new work by the writer Osmen Ospino Zárate.
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This book, the tenth by Ospino Zárate, was presented last Friday at the Guacaó restaurant in Valledupar and had already been launched at the Latin American Book Fair in Cartagena.
The 60-year-old writer, born in Barrancas (La Guajira), describes in this novel and narrates “the vicissitudes that led to the clandestinity of those who never renounced their convictions and they ended up being one more figure in the disappearance statistics”.
“We narrate the theme behind the social protest. I got to know up close all the drama of the movement in Bogotá”, pointed out the teacher of Critical Reading of the Leonidas Acuña de Valledupar school.
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Osmen Ospino explains in his description that his work ‘Nobody ask about me’ also “reviews the popular culture that builds social ideals, through songs and poems that are in the essence of our Latin American identity”.
BY EDITORIAL / EL PILÓN.
