La religión de las cosas

Juan Bravo Rodríguez

doi:10.22490/9789586519052

The Religion of Things

https://doi.org/10.22490/9789586519052

Juan Bravo Rodríguez,

Synopsis

Ana a young indigenous enslaved in the Colombian eastern plains, condemned to impending tragedy; the Sanchez brothers, murderers of grandparents with the dilemma between life and death, idealized towards eternal rest; Sandra and her young daughter, pigeonholed in an indecipherable witchcraft ritual; Roger, a foreigner in search of a lost Latin American Indian tribe; Samuel, a grandfather with a confusing and inexplicable life, dedicated to the work of reviving the hopes of the exiled people; and Daniel, Samuel's alleged grandson, a survivor of a reality he does not understand face diverse situations that are highlighted as traps, circumstantial moments of revelation and anguish, of struggle and despair, and pain and cruelty to discover the reason for their tragic ailments. These stories revolve around the real lives of its protagonists who understood, after the hard blow, that the heart, the deeper its wounds, the closer it is to “Things.”