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Wikipedia article
'Angosta' is a novel written by the Colombian author Hctor Abad Faciolince, published in 2003 by Seix Barral (Spain). 'Angosta' has been translated into Chinese as in 2005. The four Chinese characters mean, respectively: deep, valley, faint or dim, and castle, so an attempt to a translation would be "The deep valley and the dim castle". This translation received the prize for the best translated novel of the year in China. The novel was also translated into French by J.C. Latts Publishing House in 2010.
Angosta is an imaginary city in the middle of the Andes and some of its precedents are Clarn's fictional city of Vetusta, Onetti's Santa Mara and Gabriel Garca Mrquez imaginary town, Macondo. Many critics have defined 'Angosta,' the novel, as a modern Dystopia that in some ways describes the segregation and inequality of contemporary world.
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Category:2003 novels
Category:Spanish-language novels
Category:Colombian novels
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