In Colombia, the older the person is, the more powerful their voice. These books will help you discover more about this beautiful yet turbulent country -- the second most biodiverse country in the world and the leading source of emeralds.
Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera,...Show more
Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than 50 years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives, especially his father's, his sister Marianella's, and his own. -NoveList
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Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera,...Show more
Colombian film director Sergio Cabrera is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than 50 years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives, especially his father's, his sister Marianella's, and his own. -NoveList
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From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love. -NoveList
From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love. -NoveList
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From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love. -NoveList
From the author of Infinite Country, this collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love. -NoveList
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Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. In Abyss, Quintana leads us br...Show more
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment. -NoveList
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Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. In Abyss, Quintana leads us br...Show more
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment. -NoveList
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As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is 18 and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is est...Show more
As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is 18 and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is estranged, and his poor goalkeeping has just cost his soccer team their most important game of the season. As a graduation present, Gregorio’s defiant uncle Nico takes him to Colombia, where he is introduced to old friends, family memories, and a culture ailing after years of conflict and colonization. -NoveList
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As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is 18 and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is est...Show more
As Gregorio recovers from a soccer injury, he relives a decisive period of his life when he is 18 and adrift. His parents are divorcing, his sister is estranged, and his poor goalkeeping has just cost his soccer team their most important game of the season. As a graduation present, Gregorio’s defiant uncle Nico takes him to Colombia, where he is introduced to old friends, family memories, and a culture ailing after years of conflict and colonization. -NoveList
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Rojas Contreras follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia. -NoveList
Rojas Contreras follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia. -NoveList
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Rojas Contreras follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia. -NoveList
Rojas Contreras follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both amid the violence of 1990s Columbia. -NoveList
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25-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone ca...Show more
25-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie's life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother's birth. -NoveList
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25-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone ca...Show more
25-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie's life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother's birth. -NoveList
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Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel plunges three strangers – a photog...Show more
Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel plunges three strangers – a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun – into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. -NoveList
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Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel plunges three strangers – a photog...Show more
Against the backdrop of Colombia’s lush yet wounded beauty in the wake of the 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel plunges three strangers – a photographer, a young Spanish chocolatier in disguise, and a Palestinian-Colombian nun – into a perilous search for the missing owner of a coveted hacienda amidst an emerging cholera epidemic. -NoveList
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Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author sha...Show more
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of "the secrets" -- the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds. -NoveList
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Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author sha...Show more
Interweaving spellbinding family stories, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, the author shares her inheritance of "the secrets" -- the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick and move the clouds. -NoveList
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The newest novel from one of Colombia's most distinguished and beloved writers is a gripping thriller about corruption deep within the foundations of the churches in Latin America. -NoveList
The newest novel from one of Colombia's most distinguished and beloved writers is a gripping thriller about corruption deep within the foundations of the churches in Latin America. -NoveList
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The newest novel from one of Colombia's most distinguished and beloved writers is a gripping thriller about corruption deep within the foundations of the churches in Latin America. -NoveList
The newest novel from one of Colombia's most distinguished and beloved writers is a gripping thriller about corruption deep within the foundations of the churches in Latin America. -NoveList
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A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize. -NoveList
A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize. -NoveList
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A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize. -NoveList
A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature Prize. -NoveList
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Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels. -NoveList
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels. -NoveList
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Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels. -NoveList
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels. -NoveList
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