The Dark Bride

LAURA RESTREPO

HarperCollins, Publishers

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 frantic search for the truth; that of Midas, a flamboyant drug-trafficker and Agustina's former lover, and Agustina's splintered memories of her own troubled childhood. The key to her madness lies buried deep in a Colombian story of money, power and corruption.

Delirium

Vintage Books USA

Internationally acclaimed for the virtuosity and power of her fiction, Laura Restrepo has created in Delirium a passionate, lyrical, devastating tale of eros and insanity. Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn’t know what has happened during his absence, and in his search for answers, he gradually unearths profound and shadowy secrets about her past. On one level, Delirium reads like a detective story, as the reader pieces together information to discover the roots of Agustina’s madness. But it is also a remarkably nuanced novel whose currents run much deeper, delving into the minds of four characters: Aguilar, a husband passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity: Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper-class Colombian family who is caught in the throes of madness; Midas, a drug-trafficker and money-launderer, who is Agustina’s former lover; and Nicolás, Agustina’s grandfather. Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war and corruption as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable country. Delirium already has been awarded the 2004 Premio Alfaguara, the 2006 Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France for best translated fiction. It is an ambitious and deeply affecting masterwork by one of Latin America’s most important contemporary voices. Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

Delirium: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Nan A. Talese

Laura Restrepo's prize-winning The Angel of Galilea, newly translated into English, is a sublimely original, utterly contemporary story of love, faith, poverty, and mystery. Mona, a Colombian journalist once idealistic and determined to better the world, has been reduced to recounting the vapid pronouncements of newly crowned beauty queens for the tabloid journal that employs her. When her editor sends her to investigate reported sightings of an angel in a barrio on the outskirts of Bogotá, it's just another day's work. The angel craze has arrived late from America, and true to Colombian fashion she will now be expected to "warm up another topic already cold in the U.S." When she arrives in the flooded poorest-of-the-poor barrio of Galilea, she finds the residents in passionate conflict over a strange but beautiful young man. Magnificent, overwhelming, enigmatic, and possessing an undeniable sexual magnetism, he is revered by some as an angel and denounced by others, including the local priest, as an infernal impostor. Mona reads the story of this "angel without a name" in tattered journals transcribed by his mother and communes silently with him in the moonlight, falling deeply, passionately in love with him. Risking all, she commits herself to saving him from the forces that would destroy him. This silent, powerful angel, left out of the official heavenly host, personifies for the outcast, impoverished residents of Galilea their faith and hope. For Mona he is the avatar of a mystery she abandoned in childhood and, in a single, passionate, intimate embrace, fulfills both her desire to love completely and her longing to believe. The Angel of Galilea has been awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in Mexico and the Prix France Culture in France.

The Angel of Galilea

Contemporary

Crown

Imprint. A fast-paced narrative of jealousy and death; of family feuding and an unrelenting round of pay-back killings. Yet it is also a love story in which two women risk all, standing aside from the accepted family tradition of crime and death to secure a future for their beloved sons.

Leopard in the Sun Tpb

Angus&Robertson

Ésta es la historia estremecedora y verídica de un grupo de náufragos sometidos durante nueve años a las más duras pruebas de supervivencia, entre ellas una extraña guerra a muerte en la cual nunca llegan a verle la cara a sus enemigos. El tragicómico Ramón Arnaud, joven oficial del Ejército mexicano, acepta una misión en una isla desierta, no por casualidad llamada de la Pasión, y parte hacia allá con Alicia, su esposa adolescente, y once soldados con sus familias. Entre tanto, su país entra en el vértigo de una guerra civil, cae el gobierno que los ha enviado y nadie vuelve a acordarse de ellos ni de la isla, donde quedan librados a su muerte. Setenta años después de ocurridos estos hechos reales pero olvidados, Laura Restrepo les rastreó la pista, entrevistando a los familiares de los sobrevivientes e investigando en los archivos de la Armada mexicana y de la norteamericana, en viejas cartas de amor, en los decires y recuerdos de los vecinos de varios pueblos de México. El resultado es esta aventura fantasmagórica, surrealista y en buena medida inútil, pero pese a todo conmovedoramente heroica.

La Isla De La Pasion

Rayo

Hot Sur

From revered Colombian writer Laura Restrepo comes the smart, thrilling story of a young woman trying to outrun a nightmare.María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence. But the dangers of prison are not her only obstacles: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back. Can María Paz survive this double threat in a land where danger and desperation are always one step behind, and safety and happiness seem just out of reach?

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

BRILLIANCE AUDIO ^

Hot sur (Spanish Edition)

María Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopía. Pero el sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policía blanco, y condenada a prisión.  Sin embargo, la vida de María Paz dará un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondrá a prueba todo su temple, está esperándola fuera de las rejas.  Laura Restrepo nos atrapa con este thriller trepidante, magníficamente construido, terrorífico pero también divertido. Un homenaje a la mujer y una crítica feroz al mundo occidental capitalista y a sus falsos sueños de prosperidad.  Description in English: Maria Paz is a young woman from Latin America who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she works to prove her innocence.  But the dangers of prison are not her only threat: gaining freedom would mean facing an even greater horror lying in wait outside the prison gates, one that will stop at nothing to get her back.  Can María Paz survive this double peril in a land where danger and desperation are always one step behind, and safety and happiness seem just out of reach?

Hot Sur (Spanish Edition)

ABG-Grupo Planeta

DULCE COMPAÑIA

EDB FICCION

El asesinato irreflexivo de Adriano Monsalve por parte de su primo hermano Nando Barragán, desencadena una guerra fratricida destinada a durar hasta el fin de los tiempos, y marcada por la inexorable ley del desierto: la sangre se paga con sangre. Barraganes y Monsalves alimentarán su sed de venganza con negocios ilegales, convirtiendo al dinero fácil en rey de una nueva sociedad que habrá perdido irremediablemente el camino.

El leopardo al sol

Norma

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