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
“Gabo was a superior being… With Gabo’s books you just want to keep reading and reading… His charm, his special way of seeing life.” Gabriel García Márquez, known as Gabo in the countries of Latin America, was the... Read Article
It doesn’t feel like that long ago that we were putting together our Sounds and Colours Colombia book and were keen to feature an article on Andrés Caicedo, a Colombian author who we felt needed more attention. You... 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
Our Colombia book/CD project is approaching take-off. We’re just waiting for the final few tracks to be cleared for the CD, and putting the final touches to the book itself. We’re expecting it to be ready for delivery... Read Article
Known as Gabo throughout Latin America, 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 those unfamiliar... Read Article
