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61) Los divinos
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"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"--Amazon.com.
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Efraín López, un reconocido psicólogo puertorriqueño que ha sido invitado a dar una conferencia en una universidad de Colombia, es interceptado por dos hombres armados y secuestrado. Después de varias horas en las que ni siquiera conoce su paradero, descubre que ha sido trasladado a la selva y que Martín Sombra, uno de los líderes más sanguinarios de las FARC, dirige el campamento en el que es retenido. Comienza así una aterradora pesadilla...
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"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...
64) Escombros
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"En Escombros, libro que entronca directamente con una de las obras más emblemáticas y reconocidas del autor, El desbarrancadero, Fernando Vallejo narra la llegada de la noche del mundo, ese tiempo que va desde la agonía de su compañero, el escenógrafo mexicano David Antón --que coincide con el terremoto que asoló Ciudad de México en 2018-- y su muerte, y el momento actual, marcado por una pandemia que mantiene en vilo a todo el planeta. La...
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Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction transports readers to a world that is at once fanciful, haunting, and real. Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's first novella, introduces the mythical village of Macondo, a desolate town beset by torrents of rain, where a man must...
72) Boy kills man
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Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Colombian city.
74) La perra
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Damaris lives with her husband Rogelio in a remote area on the Pacific coast of Colombia where there is no security and the violence that erupts amidst unfulfilled desire and guilt is not incompatible with love.
75) La oculta
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Tres hermanos, ya envejecidos, narran los hechos de La Oculta, una finca devastada por los ventarrones de la historia colombiana. Los nombres son bíblicos y parecen antiguos: Jericó, en Antioquia. Y en una zona apartada de Jericó, una finca escondida en la montaña: La Oculta. Tres hermanos: Pilar, Eva y Antonio ángel, son los últimos miembros de una vieja familia, y los herederos de esa propiedad. La finca, una selva abierta y colonizada por...
77) The farm
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Pilar, Eva, and Antonio ℓngel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. The land has survived several generations. It is the landscape of their happiest memories but it is also where they have had to face the siege of violence and terror, restlessness and flight. In The Farm, Hčtor Abad illuminates the vicissitudes of a family and of a people, as well as of the voices of these three siblings, recounting their...
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"In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts, a private school where students disappear and girls give birth to strange creatures. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads to a job offer and launches an inner conflict full of holes and missteps. Ultimately,...
79) Cártel
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"How much is a life worth? Mariana Rodriguez is the eldest daughter of a Colombian drug lord. Growing up in Villanueva, Colombia, she has never wanted for anything. Private schools, a lavish lifestyle, and the safety of the Cartel that her father works for. At nineteen, she's got her entire life mapped out, and what a good life it's going to be: graduate from college, move to America, and finally be free from the stifling grip of the Cartel. Only,...
80) Bogotá: a novel
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In Bogotá, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects him to the gruesome errands demanded by the local paramilitary. Moving in with relatives in a slum in Bogotá, the family tries desperately to achieve the smallest measure of comfort and hope in a world of almost total ruin, wracked by deprivation, fear, and ceaseless violence. Alan...