Good Offices

Evelio Rosero's work has been recognized by Colombia's National Literature Award. The Armies (MacLehose Press, 2008) won the 2006 Tusquets International Novel Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009. Anne McLean has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, for Cercas' Soldiers of Salamis and Evelio Rosero's The Armies. This is her first collaboration with Anna Milsom, who is Senior Lecturer in Translation at London Metropolitan University.

'Moving from offbeat humour to soaring spiritual ecstasy, it has both pathos and punch' Maya Jaggi, Guardian. 'A novella about hope and the possibility of realising it ... written with brio, and with vivid illuminating touches ... It reads beautifully' Allan Massie, Scotsman. 'A fable of vice and desire as comic as it is disturbing' Lucy Scholes, Sunday Times. 'An entertaining and engaging read, with arresting images that linger in the mind long after the book has been returned to the shelf' Wayne Gooderham, Time Out. 'a ripe and atmospheric satire on ecclesiastical hypocrisy' Sunday Telegraph. 'The Catholic Church takes a real kicking in this slim yet invective-packed satire ... lays bare the hypocrisy of the Church in richly descriptive sentences' Sunday Business Post.