Libros de Laura Restrepo (5 libros)

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...

This extraordinary novel narrates the story of an obscure and hungry little girl named Sayonara, a beautiful prostitute of Tora, in the Colombian jungle, where the workers go once a month looking for sex.

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. No tiene idea de qué le pudo haber ocurrido durante los tres días de su ausencia, y con el fin de ayudarla a salir de la crisis empieza a...

«Cuando el nivel de la escritura llega hasta donde lo llevó Laura Restrepo, hay que quitarse el sombrero». José Saramago

Un crimen real que conmovió a una sociedad entera. Un alegato contra el feminicidio, por una de las autoras más importantes en español de la actualidad. PREMIO CÓRDOBA POR LA PAZ - ANTONIO GALA DE NARRATIVA 2018 Fuimos cinco, los Tutti Frutti. Digo que fuimos cinco, y aún lo somos. Porque no ha pasado lo que podría pasar, si es cierto que ocurre. A partir un crimen verídico, Laura Restrepo ha construido esta ficción. Los personajes que en ella figuran no existen fuera del mundo imaginado. Pero la tragedia de la víctima es brutalmente real. Página tras página se va revelando el...