02089cam a2200289 4500 760904810 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781629631752 1629631752 49423fc9-db4c-44dc-8d4a-d74018368cb9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2409964 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Wilson, JJ Amaworo. Damnificados [Libby] : A Novel. PM Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1163kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1163kB. Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:<p><b>Uses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city</b><br /> <br /> <i>Damnificados</i> is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, 600 "damnificados"—vagabonds and misfits—take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical "owners." Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven's Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=49423fc9-db4c-44dc-8d4a-d74018368cb9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=49423fc9-db4c-44dc-8d4a-d74018368cb9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8