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Feast of the Innocents

Feast of the Innocents
  • Author(s): Evelio Rosero
  • 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...

Oblivion

Oblivion
  • Author(s): Hector Abad
  • 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...

A King’s Ransom

A King’s Ransom
  • Author(s): James Grippando
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been...

A Place in the World

A Place in the World
  • Author(s): Cinda Crabbe Mackinnon
  • 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...

A Reluctant Warrior

A Reluctant Warrior
  • Author(s): Kelly Brooke Nicholls
  • Location(s): Buenaventura
  • Era(s): Modern

A gripping novel that gives readers a rare glimpse into Colombia’s notorious drug wars, told by someone who knows the landscape intimately. When Luzma’s brother Jair unwittingly uncovers the plan by Colombia’s most notorious drug cartel to smuggle an...

Berta (Muchacha Series Book 1)

Berta (Muchacha Series Book 1)
  • Author(s): Olivier Bosman
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

The ‘Muchacha Series’ is a collection of five light-hearted novellas which tell the story of Hans and Annie – a young Dutch couple who move to Colombia for work in the early 1970’s. Through a series of poignant and...

Breakfast in Bogota

Breakfast in Bogota
  • Author(s): Helen Young
  • 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...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • Author(s): Gabriel García Márquez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. ‘On the day...

Delirium

Delirium
  • Author(s): Laura Restrepo
  • 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

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...

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