A little bit of literature (continuation)

Do you fancy a read some gripping story? I recommend you a novel entilted "Method of Losing or The Art of Losing" by Santiago Gamboa. Everybody who read this novel gushed over it! 

As far as the author is concerned,Santiago Gamboa was born in 1965 in Bogota (Colombia). He studied literature at the Javeriana University (Bogota). Next, Gamboa moved to Madrid and he received his Bachelor's Degree in Spanish Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid. The author has lived in France since 1990 and he has worked as a journalist for Radio France International.

It's worth pointing out that Gamboa was awarded La Otra Orilla Literary Prize (2009). 

 

Thanks to "Method of Losing or The Art of Losing", his second novel, Santiago Gamboa gained ground. Sergio Cabrera is a director who filmed it in 2005. Both the book and the screen version are really good judging by the audience.

Santiago Gamboa  tells us a ficcional story of a journalist who inadvertently gets mixed up in some shady affair. The readers get to know tangible aspects of the capital of Columbia. Here both  corruption and violence are the order of the day. One way or another, everyone is doomed to failure. It's important that the author draws attention to our fate: we have to be prepared to lose something in order to gain something. Gamboa combines an adventure novel with black humour and, additionally, criticizes Colombian society.