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Evelio Rosero's The Armies (2007) [Translated by Anne McLean]

Sample quote:

‘Profesor, he said into my ear, ‘they didn’t kill you while you slept?’
‘Of course not,” I managed to say once I had recovered from the question. And I tried to laugh: ‘Do you not see that I am here with you?’
And, nevertheless, we stood looking at each other for a few seconds, as if we could not believe it.
‘And who was going to kill me?’ I asked. ‘And why?’
‘That’s what I was told,’ he replied.