Echoes of Liberty: Antonio Narino and the Birth of Colombia

One night in 1793, a man risked everything for an idea.Antonio Nariño had wealth, position, and a family he adored. But the night his hands set the forbidden Declaration of the Rights of Man into type, he lit a fire that would consume his fortune, his freedom, and thirty years of his life, and help bring a nation into being.From the candlelit printing presses of colonial Santafé de Bogotá to a prison cell battered by the sea winds of Cádiz, from the presidency of Cundinamarca to a defiant cry on a balcony in Pasto ("e;Here you have General Nariño!"e;), this sweeping novel follows Colombia's independence precursor all the way to his last breath in Villa de Leyva.But this is not his story alone. It is told through five voices: Magdalena, the wife who kept the resistance alive while he languished in prison; Carlos, the mestizo musician who wove a spy network out of melody; Pedro, the freed slave who became a soldier of liberty; Wayra, the Muisca woman who asks what independence really means for those history forgets; and Nariño himself, who pays for seventeen articles of liberty with everything he has.Revised and expanded in this new edition, co-authored by Ricardo Gómez and Mauricio Beltrán, Echoes of Liberty recovers the invisible architects of a continent's freedom and asks the question every revolution leaves behind: was it worth it?For readers of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale.