{"product_id":"policarpa-apocalypse-sur-amerikkka-paperback","title":"Policarpa: Apocalypse Sur Amerikkka - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Burbano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolicarpa: Apocalypse: Sur Amerikka is a fever dream, near-future fairy tale set in a collapsing La Gran Colombia, where an inexplicable golden plague carried by the bodies of young women has become a weapon in a war between a deranged king and the revolution rising up against him. Told in fractured, mist-edged memory from a jail cell where its heroine awaits a firing squad, the play follows Policarpa, an indigenous girl of nineteen with magical gifts and a paralyzed twin brother she refuses to abandon. Plucked from the tunnels beneath Bogotá by Ingrid Bolivar, the dark, messianic \"queen of the slums\" who runs a sewing shop as a front for her apocalyptic designs, Policarpa is groomed to become the prophesied Salvadora: the virgin sacrifice whose plague will end the world. She can command magic cloth and is set to work on sewing a gown for General Valentía, the country's ruthless war hero-turned presidential candidate. But Policarpa falls in love with Valentía, and that love fractures the prophecy. Caught between Ingrid's gospel of merciful annihilation and her own stubborn insistence that a brutal world is still worth its arepas, its music, and its love, Policarpa moves from instrument of destruction into its strange, glittering savior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe play braids myth, telenovela, and political horror: Muisca cosmology (Bachué, Chía, the snake swallowing the moon), Catholic martyrdom, fairy-tale logic, and contemporary atrocity all collapsing into one another. Its ensemble of women: the mother (Paciencia), the seductress-assassin (Realidad), the warrior (Valentía), the false prophet (Ingrid), orbits Policarpa as facets of a single argument about women as the blood, the victims, and the avengers of history. Darkly funny, and unsentimental it ends in salt and butterflies: three women turned to weeping statues, and a heroine who refuses both princesshood and martyrdom to claim only herself \"ni pura, ni inocente. Solo La Pola.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71361007517949,"sku":"9798256101060","price":25.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/JDILgwfJ609798256101060.webp?v=1790185963","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/policarpa-apocalypse-sur-amerikkka-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}