{"product_id":"policarpa-apocalypse-sur-amerikkka-9798256101060","title":"Policarpa: Apocalypse Sur Amerikkka","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diana Burbano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Breath of Fire Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256101060","brand":"Breath of Fire Literary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48405725020297,"sku":"9798256101060","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/policarpa-apocalypse-sur-amerikkka-9798256101060","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}