No One Weeps for Me Now

by Sergio Ramírez, Daryl R Hague (Contributor)

Years after his unceremonious firing from the National Police for an act of heroic insubordination recounted in The Sky Weeps for Me, (2020), Inspector Dolores Morales ― scraping by as a private investigator ― finds himself summoned before a powerful Nicaraguan oligarch, Miguel Soto, whose step-daughter has gone missing. Morales is summarily given the lucrative if daunting task of finding her with only her name and two photographs, and three days to complete the search. But thanks to the intrepid Dona Sofia's ingenuity, and the watchful if ethereal presence of former partner Bert Dixon―as well as a host of colorful if reluctant confederates enlisted from among Managua's demimonde―Morales methodically untangles a scandal of national proportions. As his unwelcome discoveries attract the personal animosity of Nicaragua's director of national intelligence, the pursuer becomes the pursued, and Morales confronts a painful dilemma. Sergio Ramirez's second volume of The Managua Trilogy is infused with his mastery of complex narrative, sharp characterization, ironic humor, and ethos of human resilience. The venality and lust for power underlying the recent history of Nicaragua are vividly brought to life in No One Weeps for Me Now.

288 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2022

About the author

Sergio Ramírez Mercado (born August 5, 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as Vice President of the country 1985-1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.

Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963. He received his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua of León in 1964, where he obtained the Gold Medal for being the best student.

In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals, priests, businesspeople, and members of civil society who publicly stated their support for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) in its struggle to topple the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction, where he presided over the National Council of Education. He was elected vice-president of Nicaragua in 1984 and was sworn in 1985.

Reviews

[Lanie Tankard · Rating 4 out of 5]

My review of THE MANAGUAN TRILOGY by Sergio Ramírez appears in THE WOVEN TALE PRESS:

https://www.thewoventalepress.net/202...

[Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

A multitude of colorful characters populate the story -line. Doña Sophia and Dolores Morales are assisted in investigating the disappearance of Soto/Agnelli's stepdaughter with the help of Lord Dixon 's ghost. Dixon died in a hail of gunfire during the first book in this series and his sardonic remarks are an effective way of keeping the starring trio of Sandanista comrades going. The book explores every level of Nicaraguan society, the demimonde to the high society and shows the country is home to people from all over like Costa Rica, the US, Honduras, Argentina etc. Inspector Morales and Rambo/Serafino end up deported from Nicaragua.. The author likes to use descriptive alternate names for his characters, like Rambo. A young kid helping the Inspector and Vademecum is named SpongeBob. Haha.