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El Corredor Polaco o La sotana de Camilo

> Juan Manuel Jaramillo

Novel

ISBN (epub): 9789588732381
ISBN (mobi): 9789588732374

The central tower of the Manizales Cathedral is crowned by the Polish Corridor. The name of this passage, where you can see the view of the city, refers to the obligatory step between Germany and Poland to reach the cities on the Baltic Sea, the one that was invaded by Hitler in 1938, thus triggering the II WW. 'I was born in those days', says Santiago Ramirez, main character of the novel by the colombian writer Juan Manuel Jaramillo, who has a life marked by many events and revolutionary violence that characterized the XX century in the world. He will come back several times to this tower either as a priest or as a militant of the first national liberal guerillas.

Santiago's words appear on these pages as an archeological evidence of the social and political reality that gave rise to the colombian guerillas and the violence that still threatens the country. They are also the perfect excuse to reconstruct Camilo Torres' life –priest and head of ELN guerrillas– and with him, a generational idea around the social equality utopia. Jaramillo surprises with this improbable as real story, in a polarized world where the characters are full of nuances. Certainly, he proposes his own view of the recent history of Colombia, of which the reader can have as many assurances as doubts.