Oblivion

"Oblivion is a heartrending, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by para-militaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life, during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history."--Book jacket.