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"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story." --SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...
2) La hojarasca
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"Con La hojarasca nació Macondo, población cercana a la costa atlántico colombiana que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de la literatura universal. En él transcurre la historia de un entierro imposible. Ha muerto un personaje extráo, un antiguo médico odiado por el pueblo. Un viejo coronel retirado, para cumplir una promesa, se ha empeádo en enterrarle frente a la oposición de todo el poblado y sus autoridades. Como en una tragedia...
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A romantic novel with traces of modernism. The Colombian writer Jose Maria Vargas Vila was one of the most popular and widely read novelists in Latin America, as he added to his celebrity as a polemicist and friend of freedom, that of the romantic writer, with erotic allusions and an original literary style. His first novel, 'Aura o las violetas', tells of a love story between two teenagers, and in its development, one can see signs of what would...
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