Used book – *In the City of Shy Hunters*, James Cañon

Since the day the guerrillas landed and conscripted all the men from the village of Mariquita, the women have been left to their own devices. No matter! The submissive housewives, the docile wives, are going to establish a new social order. Thus, the very moustachioed Morales sisters decide to remedy their condition as frustrated single women by creating a mobile brothel; Francisca, the widow of a notorious miser, lives the high life after discovering her husband's hoard. And then there's the tenacious Rosalba, self-proclaimed mayor, and Father Rafael, the only survivor of the male population, who volunteers to ensure the procreation of the new generation... A baroque, dazzlingly fantastical, tragicomic chronicle of a forgotten town deep in Colombia.

Cañón, a disciple of García Márquez and his magical realism, delivers an optimistic, delightful, and mischievous tale. Jacques Gantié, Nice Matin.