They shall remember me: Family, militancy and exile

By Fabiola Calvo Ocampo

They shall remember me is a fictionalized testimony with somewhat surrealist overtones. It is written based on real events and places, real and fictitious names in places and landscapes of Colombia and Madrid where memory and its play of dimensions come into play. Memory comes to life in a continuous dialogue between past and future, a game between daily experience and political discourse, which is why archival documents are referenced that show two important moments of political memory in Colombia. The narrative begins when Amalia, a journalist linked to the left in clandestine political activities, tries to relate two events in the same place but in different historical times. From that moment on, events unfold: When her brother Oscar Williams is murdered, she experiences a strange situation in which, while attending the recognition and burial of her loved one, she continues to share time and space with her loved one. From the present and throbbing memory, her brother asks her to organize a farewell party... in the middle of the party, Oscar Williams disappears behind the fog. Since then, Amalia's life passes between reality and daydreaming, in a simultaneous game of time and space. Circumstances force her into exile in Spain. Then, necessity leads her to return to her roots. She reconnects with her past and a sudden circumstance takes her back to the intermediate space she knew after Oscar William's death, where the living and the dead coexist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9585880997
• ISBN13: 9789585880993
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Acracia Publisher
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"