Pilar Quintana’s novel The Bitch (translated by Lisa Dillman) explores a woman’s yearning for motherhood and the chaos of life in a sprawling backwater on Colombia’s Pacific coast. It is a novel of love, loss and violence. Written... Read Article
There is an age-old nature vs. nurture debate, but Laura Restrepo’s The Divine Boys makes a persuasive case to scrutinise another factor: the environment created by toxic masculinity. Set in Bógota (with a breezy vacation to Atolaima), the... Read Article
“It is one of the saddest paradoxes in my life. Almost everything I have written has been meant for somebody who can’t read me.” Héctor Abad Faciolince’s El Olvido Que Seremos (published in English as Oblivion: A Memoir) is... Read Article
“(…) life would drag forward, enveloped in its own inertia” (p. 205, my translation). A woman who dates somebody looking exactly like her dead boyfriend. A journalist who dwells on what course of action to take after discovering... Read Article
In a shady billiards joint in La Candelaria, central Bogotá, Antonio Yammara, a young law professor frequently spends his evening. There, the professor – who wrote his dissertation on how Hamlet’s insanity exempts him from responsibility – often... Read Article
Known as Gabo throughout Latin America, the late Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez is among the 20th century’s most significant writers. An award-winning novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, there is no shortage of his works. But for... Read Article
The Informers by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vasquez is a fascinating book which poses a lot of questions. The story is deceptively simple: a reversal of reputation prompted by a seemingly innocuous book which unravels more than its... Read Article
