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TIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his...
2) Delirium
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2007.
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From the Publisher: 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;...
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"Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, 'Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing' (Los Angeles Times). On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist-an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor-decides to give himself 'the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent...
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Ryder Creed novels volume 1
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English
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Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines. They've intercepted several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta's airport. But their newfound celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention. When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels' latest shipment isn't drugs. This time, its cargo is human. To make matters worse,...
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"A potent mixture of history, fiction and literary gamesmanship." —Los Angeles Times
"A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times
An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's...
"A cunning tribute to a classic." —Wall Street Journal
"[A] post-modern literary revenge story.” —The New York Times
An ingenious novel of historical invention from the global literary star author of The Sound of Things Falling.
On the day of Joseph Conrad's...
6) The cobra
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What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires,...
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La otra orilla/Editorial Norma
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[2008]
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Español
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Martín Garrido acaba de mudarse a un apartamento cerca de la universidad en la que estudia. Poco tiempo después de llegar, empieza a recibir una serie insistente de llamadas de una empresa de mensajería que intenta ubicar a Alejandro Villabona. Al principio, Martín ignora las llamadas pensando que es una broma de uno de sus amigos, pero los hechos le muestran que no se trata de ningún chiste. Martín descubre que Villabona era el inquilino que...
8) The bitch
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"In Colombia’s brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia’s Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up', as her uncle puts it, she is...
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Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books
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[2019]
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English
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"For the last fifty years, the Colombian drug cartels, various insurgent groups, and the government have fought over the control of the drug traffic, in the process destroying vast stretches of the Amazon, devastating Indian communities, and killing tens of thousands of homesteaders caught in the middle of the conflict. Inspired by these events, Jaime Manrique's sixth novel, Like This Afternoon Forever, weaves in two narratives: the shocking story...
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2021.
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Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she does make it to Bogotá, will she trade the facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her...
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Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2018]
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English
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A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
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2013.
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No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...
13) In evil hour
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HarperPerennial
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1991.
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English
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Written just before "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness.
14) Río muerto
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World Editions
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2025.
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After Salomón Palacios is murdered near his home in a remote Colombian town, his grieving widow, Hipólita Arenas, defies paramilitaries and corrupt politicians while confronting her own despair, as Salomón's ghost narrates a poetic story of resilience, memory, and hope amidst violence.
"On the outskirts of Belén del Chamí, a town that has yet to appear on any map of Colombia, the mute Salomón Palacios is murdered a few steps away from his home....
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Santillana
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c2011
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Español
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The novel El ruido de las cosas al caer (or, The noise of falling things) is set in Bogotá and covers a period in Colombian history ruled by the overwhelming presence of Pablo Escobar, the fearsome drug king who became one of the world's richest men during a lifetime of criminal activity.
16) Los Almuerzos
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Colecci⯮ Andanzas volume 699
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Tusquets
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2009.
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Español
17) Un beso de Dick
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Seix Barral
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2019.
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English
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Felipe es un adolescente bogotano que sueña con ser futbolista y con rodar películas de amor signadas por la tragedia. Pero anhela, por encima de todas las cosas, estar en una relación con su compañero de clase y de equipo de fútbol Leonardo. A tientas, guiado por su afecto, este joven de 16 años se abre camino por las sendas del primer amor, consciente de pertenecer a una sociedad que,cegada por sus prejuicios, se le dificulta dialogar con...
18) Reputations
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Riverhead Books
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2016.
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English
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An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
19) Delirio
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Alfagura
Pub. Date
2004
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Español
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Aguilar returns home after a short business trip only to find that his wife, Agustina, has gone crazy. Having no idea what could have happened during his absence, and hoping to help her overcome this crisis, he begins to investigate, what he discovers are deep and disturbing facts hidden in the past of the woman he loves. -- Aguilar regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa, Agustina, se ha enloquecido completamente....
20) Salt crystals
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Charco Press
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2022.
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English
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Victoria returns to San Andrés, a Colombian island off the coast of Nicaragua, after many years away. The island is a unique mix of noisy tourists, sudden storms, sewage blooms, and government resistance groups. Here Victoria must confront the place she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future.
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