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- Location(s): San Juan de Pasto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso López, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simón Bolívar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal. In...
- Location(s): Medellin
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s-1990
The place is Medellín, Colombia’s second-largest city, and the time is the quarter-century from the early 1960s until 1987. Oblivion is a memorial to the author’s father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alicia, a young American expat, marries Colombian Jorge Carvallo and they settle on his family’s remote coffee finca (farm) in the Andes. Educated as a biologist, she revels in the surrounding cloud-forest. However, following an idyllic year, calamities strike...
- Location(s): Bogota
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Bogotá, 1947. British architect Luke Vosey has left his past behind to undertake a commission for Anglo-Colombian Oil in South America. For Luke, this new venture seems to offer the chance to start again. But grieving and ashamed of his...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Aguliar returns home after a four-day business trip to discover that his beloved wife has gone mad. Desperate to rescue Agustina from her sudden, devastating insanity, Aguliar delves back into her shadowy past. Other narratives are intertwined with his...
Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000s
Ingrid Betancourt’s story – her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience – has captured the world’s imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she...