Satanás (novel) explained

Satanás
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Author:Mario Mendoza Zambrano
Illustrator:Garry Wade
Title Orig:Satanás
Orig Lang Code:es
Country:Colombia
Language:Spanish
Genre:Novel
Set In:Bogotá
Publisher:Editorial Planeta
Pub Date:2002
Pages:285 pags.
Awards:Premio Biblioteca Breve (2002)
Isbn:9789584202925
Oclc:49991813
Preceded By:Relato de un asesino
Followed By:Cobro de sangre

Satanás is a novel by the Colombian writer Mario Mendoza Zambrano published in 2002. It is about three stories happening around a real event on December 4, 1986: Campo Elías Delgado, a Vietnam War veteran, killed his apartment building neighbors, a student of him and her mother, his own mother, and 30 people in a high-end restaurant before committing suicide. The novel narrates his life and that of three of his victims.

It received the 2002 Premio Biblioteca Breve as best unpublished novel.[1]

It was inspiration for the movie of the same name produced in 2007.

Notes and References

  1. News: El colombiano Mario Mendoza gana el Premio Biblioteca Breve . The Colombian Mario Mendoza Wins the Premio Biblioteca Breve . Isabel . Obiols . . Barcelona . Spanish . February 5, 2002 . September 5, 2018.