Kirjahaku

Routinely sought by local oil riggers for her beauty and charm, Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes the oil company workers as well as her own happiness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

La reportera de una revista de frivolidades es enviada por su jefe a cubrir la aparicion de un angel en una de las barriadas mas pobres de la ciudad. Emprende la tarea a reganadientes porque la tienen sin cuidado los asuntos religiosos y la aburre sobremanera un tema tan manido, y ni siquiera sospecha hasta que punto se va a ver involucrada en una brutal cadena de acontecimientos que escaparan a su control y a su racionalidad. Quien es y de donde viene el supuesto angel, ese muchacho perplejo y de asombrosa belleza a quien la fe de los habitantes del barrio mantiene encerrado entre una cueva? Que lo une a esa reportera que de el se enamora, a la madre que lo busca en agonia, al sacerdote que intenta destruirlo, a la medica que pretende hospitalizarlo, a las mujeres que lo banan, lo alimentan y lo convierten en supremo objeto de veneracion?Sin caer en el socorrido "realismo magico," Restrepo explora los abismos de la religiosidad popular y acompana los pasos de una mujer que se atreve a adentrarse en el luminoso y a la vez pavoroso territorio de lo sagrado.Dulce Compania recibio los premios Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz y el Prix France Culture, otorgado por la critica literaria francesa."

Con su caracteristico talento, Laura Restrepo construye un brillante relato en el que se combinan sensualmente el realismo y la imaginacion, la radiografia social y el romanceA traves de una serie de entrevistas, la reportera que narra este relato da vida a un singular grupo de personajes: cazadores de fortuna, jefes guerrilleros, obreros de refineria, y prostitutas. Asi intenta descifrar la misteriosa e impulsiva vida de Sayonara, el personaje principal de La novia oscura. Tal una exotica mariposa, enigmatica y arrogante, Sayonara trabaja bajo las luces de La Catunga, el burdel del pueblo. Cada mes, Sayonara embruja a los trabajadores de la Tropical Oil Company que bajan de las montanas en busca de un poco de dicha terrenal. Pero estos no son los unicos en sucumbir a los encantos de Sayonara... Su belleza atrae como una llama a una mezcla de personajes que van desde Sacramento, su amigo de la infancia, decidido a rescatarla del pecado, hasta el misterioso Payanes... Esta es la historia de Sayonara, la novia oscura, y revela un universo personal y politico que quedara para siempre marcado por su paso.

Award-winning Colombian author Laura Restrepo weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth in this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse.Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the refugee camps of the present day, Song of Ancient Lovers is a sublime ode to love and desire as forces shaping human history, with power that rivals forces of destruction.Ethereal in its weaving of the real and the mythical, the contemporary and the ancient, this is the story of Bos Mutas, a young writer traveling from South America to northern Africa in search of traces of his obsession. His research unveils the Queen of Sheba as unyielding and committed to her independence, with remarkable influence both in her time—over Solomon and all the subjects in her expansive kingdom—and on thinkers and artists across the centuries, from Thomas Aquinas to Gérard de Nerval, Frida Kahlo to Patti Smith. He also finds traces of her influence in the magic made of devastating circumstances by women he meets on his journey, especially Zahra Bayda, a Somali midwife who has taken it upon herself to show him around. Stunning and evocative, Song of Ancient Lovers is a triumph of imagination and reverence for the spirit that connects us across boundaries of time and geography.Translated from the Spanish by Caro De Robertis

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. that of Midas, a flamboyant drug-trafficker and Agustina's former lover, and Agustina's splintered memories of her own troubled childhood.

In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters. There's Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper-class family who is caught in the throes of madness; her husband Aguilar, a man passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity; Agustina's former lover Midas, a drug-trafficker and money-launderer; and Nicol s, Agustina's grandfather. Through the blend of these distinct voices, 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 reality.

In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barrag ns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barrag ns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.

"This barrio angel teaches us how to see behind the appearance of things and how to embrace reality with all the senses." --Isabel Allende "Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Her fascination with popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor, of that biting but at the same time tender irony . . . infuses them with unmistakable reading pleasures." --Gabriel Garc a M rquez Winner of Mexico's Sor Juana In s de la Cruz Prize, and France's Prix France Culture, The Angel of Galilea introduces a refreshing new voice in Latin American literature to the English speaking audience. Mona is a jaded reporter for a Colombian tabloid sent on assignment to investigate an angel sighting in one of Bogot 's most devastated barrios, where she encounters a community torn apart by a passionate conflict over a beautiful man who walks the fine line between sanity and sainthood. For the people of Galilea, this mysterious and sensual "angel without a name" represents their hope amidst desperate circumstances; for Mona, he awakens her desire to love and gives her a reason to believe. When the barrio's priest leads a revolt against the fallen angel, Mona risks everything to protect him from the gang that threatens to destroy him. "Restrepo is a writer to treasure." --Alastair Reid "Sharply resonant." --The New York Times Book Review "Surprising, wonderful, and, for me, deeply moving." --Alvaro Mutis

From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege.Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass.As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.Hauntingly true, this daringly told work of fiction explores the tragic dynamic between genders, social classes, and victim and victimizer, and between five men whose intolerable transgressions will shake the conscience of a country.

Un crimen real que conmovi a una sociedad entera. Un alegato contra el feminicidio, por una de las autoras m s importantes en espa ol de la actualidad. PREMIO C RDOBA POR LA PAZ - ANTONIO GALA DE NARRATIVA 2018Fuimos cinco, los Tutti Frutti. Digo que fuimos cinco, y a n lo somos. Porque no ha pasado lo que podr a pasar, si es cierto que ocurre.A partir un crimen ver dico, Laura Restrepo ha construido esta ficci n. Los personajes que en ella figuran no existen fuera del mundo imaginado. Pero la tragedia de la v ctima es brutalmente real. P gina tras p gina se va revelando el oscuro andamiaje que pudo haber detr s, hasta llegar al brillante y ostentoso mundo de los Tutti Frutti, cinco hombres j venes de la clase alta bogotana, vinculados entre s desde la infancia por una hermandad juguetonamente perversa y levemente delictiva. A lo largo de sus vidas cotidianas se va prefigurando, inexorable como un sino, el camino que conduce a esta transgresi n intolerable, esta suerte de anuncio de Armaged n que har estallar la resignaci n y la conciencia de todo un pa s. Los Divinos es un extraordinario ejercicio de comprensi n y reinterpretaci n de los hechos. Un relato rec ndito, vertiginoso y profundamente perturbador contra el feminicidio. En esta novela, la autora trasciende el crimen narrado para llegar, a trav s de l, hasta los recovecos m s oscuros de toda una cultura. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A real crime that moved an entire society. A condemnation of femicide by one of the most important Spanish-language authors. A girl's body is found floating in the water, in what seems to be a ritual. At the heart of this episode is the superficial world of some rich, successful young men who have an evil lifelong bond and are a world apart from the victim: poor, and a survivor of the violence of her homeland. The Divine is the fictional recreation of a real crime, but above all is the most important novel by one of the best Latin American writers. A story based on one of the most shocking crimes committed in Colombia in recent history. By the winner of the Sor Juana In s de la Cruz Prize, Prix France Culture, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize, Grinzane Cavour Prize, and the Alfaguara Novel Prize for Delirium.

La novela por la que Laura Restrepo fue galardonada con el Premio Alfaguara de novela 2004. «Todos los secretos est n guardados en un mismo caj n, el caj n de los secretos, y si desvelas uno, corres el riesgo de que pase lo mismo con los dem s. Un hombre regresa a casa despu s de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa ha enloquecido completamente. No tiene idea de qu le ha podido ocurrir durante los tres d as de su ausencia, y con el fin de ayudarla a salir de la crisis empieza a investigar, solo para descubrir lo poco que sabe sobre las profundas perturbaciones escondidas en el pasado de la mujer que ama. Narrada con talento y emoci n, la historia principal de esta novela se fragmenta en otras que se anudan a trav s de personajes llenos de matices. Laura Restrepo muestra en esta obra una energ a narrativa fuera de lo com n, en donde el suspense se mantiene hasta un final esperanzador que cierra una hermosa novela, bien construida, mejor controlada y brillantemente desarrollada. Jos Saramago, presidente del jurado que entreg el Premio Alfaguara de Novela a Laura Restrepo, dijo... «Delirio es una expresi n de todo lo que Colombia tiene de fascinante, e incluso de terriblemente fascinante. Y cuando el nivel de la escritura llega hasta donde lo llev Laura Restrepo, hay que quitarse el sombrero. Lo digo en mi nombre y en el nombre del jurado que no ha ahorrado aplausos para esta obra. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONIn this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters. There's Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper-class family who is caught in the throes of madness; her husband Aguilar, a man passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity; Agustina's former lover Midas, a drug-trafficker and money-launderer; and Nicol s, Agustina's grandfather. Through the blend of these distinct voices, 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 reality.

«Leer esta novela es una experiencia hipn tica. Versa sobre inmigrantes, pero de una manera extra a, nueva y parad jica. -World Literature Today El sue o americano se ha vuelto pesadilla, y tres latinas indocumentadas han quedado atrapadas: Bolivia y sus dos hijas, Mar a Paz y Violeta. Mar a Paz cree tocar el cielo con las manos al casarse con un polic a blanco y norteamericano. Hasta que este es asesinado y a ella la meten presa. Pero la celda no ser su peor calvario. Mar a Paz descubrir que el verdadero infierno la espera del lado de afuera de las rejas, y una segunda muerte terminar de definir el rumbo de su suerte. Hot sur no habla m s de c mo atravesar la frontera para entrar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos, sino de lo contrario: una vez adentro, c mo salirse a tiempo. Un libro que mantendr al lector al borde de la silla desde la primera p gina hasta la ltima. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Reading this novel is a hypnotic experience. Restrepo writes about immigrants, but in a strange, new and paradoxical way." -World Literature Today The American Dream has become a nightmare, and three undocumented immigrants from Latin America find themselves trapped in it: Bolivia and her two daughters, Mar a Paz, and Violeta. Mar a Paz thinks her problems are solved when she marries a white, US-born policeman. Until he is murdered, and she is arrested. But her cell isn't the real hell; that, she discovers, is waiting for her outside prison, where a second death will define her fate. Hot Sur isn't as concerned with how to enter the United States illegally, but rather how to get out in time. This is a book that will keep you on the age of your seat, from the first page to the last.

Qui n mata al verdugo? Esa es la pregunta vertiginosa. Abismo es un dios cruel, de cuyo capricho dependen la vida o la muerte, y Misericordia Dagger, verdugo met dico e inflexible, trabaja incondicionalmente bajo sus rdenes. Pero su obediencia se ve puesta a prueba cuando se enamora de la nieta de su pr xima v ctima. Esta novela es una extraordinaria parodia de los fieros tiempos actuales, marcados por el delirio de gobernantes autoritarios, irracionales y criminales. Tragicomedia universal, teatraliza c clicas pocas de terror que anuncian el caos definitivo, o tal vez presagian un mundo nuevo. El protagonista, cortacabezas con visos deliciosamente humanos, cuenta sus propias vicisitudes, utilizando un gil tono de novela gr fica e inaugurando un g nero literario radical, el brutal noir, entre lo hist rico y lo mitol gico, lo real y lo alucinado. Personaje inolvidable, Misericordia Dagger se debate con un aprendiz adolescente, el impredecible e hiperviolento Pr ncipe Sangre, a quien quiere legarle su conocimiento del oficio y su amada daga, afilada como el hambre e insospechada como una mujer. Adem s, lleva tatuada con fuego en la espalda la imagen m tica del enigm tico Ac falo. "No convoques a Ac falo, solo vendr cuando l quiera. Aparecer y creeremos".ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Who kills the executioner? That's the dizzying question at the heart of this novel. Abismo is a cruel god, ruling over life and death with merciless whim. Under his command works Misericordia Dagger--a methodical, unyielding executioner who has never questioned his duty. Until now. His loyalty is shaken when he falls in love with the granddaughter of his next target. This novel is a striking parody of our turbulent times, reflecting the madness of authoritarian, irrational, and criminal rulers. A tragicomedy of universal resonance, it stages a theater of recurring eras of terror--signs, perhaps, of ultimate chaos or the birth of a new world. Our protagonist, a headsman with disarmingly human traits, narrates his own ordeals in a voice that channels the energy of a graphic novel. The result: a bold, genre-defying tale that inaugurates a new literary form--brutal noir--blending history and myth, reality and delirium. Misericordia Dagger is an unforgettable figure, locked in a deadly dance with his adolescent apprentice, the volatile and hyperviolent Prince Blood. He wishes to pass on his deadly craft--and his beloved blade, as sharp as hunger and as unpredictable as a woman. Branded into his back is the legendary image of the enigmatic Acephale. "Do not summon Acephale. He will come only when he wishes. He will appear, and we shall believe."

Koralliriutta, samea laguuni, loputon meri ja kolmetoista palmua. Pieneltä atollilta keskeltä Tyyntä valtamerta pelastetaan vuonna 1917 joukko meksikolaisia naisia ja lapsia, jotka ovat selvinneet siellä yhdeksän vuotta, lopulta enää mustekalat, lokit ja kookokset ravintonaan.Itäisellä Tyynellä valtamerellä sijaitseva Clippertonin saari on merenkulun historian aikana ollut merirosvojen suojasatama, guanolouhos ja Meksikon armeijan tukikohta. Parhaimmillaan kuuden neliökilometrin atollilla oli 1900-luvun alussa satakunta asukasta. Sitten oikukas kohtalo, Meksikon sisällissota, ensimmäinen maailmansota ja vähiin käyvät sitruunat puuttuivat peliin. Palkittu kolumbialaiskirjailija Laura Restrepo selvittää Clippertonin kuuluisimpien haaksirikkoisten vaiheita tositapahtumiin perustuvassa esikoisteoksessaan vuodelta 1989.