Blogs in July 2019

Our Lady of the Assassins 5th July 2019

Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman – a Medellin child – with whom he falls in love. But their tender love...

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Love in the Time of Cholera 4th January 2019

(set in a fictional coastal town, probably Cartagena) ‘It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love’ Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless...

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Fruit of the Drunken Tree 16th October 2018

A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister...

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The Farm 1st August 2018

When the Angel family’s beloved home in the Antioquian wilderness falls into danger, they manage to defend it against the guerrillas and, later, the paramilitaries – but at a high price. After their parents’ death, Pilar, Eva and Tono...

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House of Beauty 13th March 2018

House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogotá’s exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give...

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