Laura Restrepo, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Stephan Lytle. Ecco $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-008894-1
Journalist, novelist, political activist and academic Restrepo (The Angel of Galilea; Leopard in the Sun) has written an innovative novel in the form of a journalist's investigation of a small Colombian oil town populated mostly by oil riggers...
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Laura Restrepo, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. HarperCollins $13.95 (199p) ISBN 978-0-06-072370-5
This slim volume offers Spanish and English versions of a novella about an encounter between strangers amid political chaos. S
et in Tora, Colombia (where Restrepo's The Dark Bride
was set), during a war, the work has a timeless, open quality...
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Laura Restrepo, Author Alfaguara $17.99 (118p) ISBN 978-1-60396-350-3
Colombian Restrepo's latest is a nostalgic look at young love between a beautiful and talented Chilean named Elo\xEDsa and Luic\xE9, a wealthy Colombian, who fall for each other on a student trip to Egypt. Upon their return to Rome, where both are...
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Laura Restrepo, Author, Dolores Koch, Translator Crown Publishing Group (NY) $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-609-60326-0
Like her fellow countryman, painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, Restrepo uses smoothly inflated characters exuding innocence and sensuality to recount a story rooted in the religious and social traditions of her native Colombia. The narrator of...
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Laura Restrepo, Author, Natasha Wimmer, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Doubleday/Talese $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-51990-8
Aguilar, a former literature professor who now "delivers dog food in order to survive" returns from a trip to find his beloved wife, Agustina, has "transformed into someone terrified and terrifying"; his subsequent investigation into
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Laura Restrepo, Author, Stephen A. Lytle, Translator Crown Publishers $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-609-60386-4
Basing her transcendent novel on contemporary events in her native Colombia, Restrepo (The Angel of Galilea) tells a riveting tale of the vicious war between two families made wealthy by crime and clandestine business. Nando Barrag n begins his...
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Laura Restrepo, Author, Dolores M. Koch, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch. HarperCollins $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-06-008898-9
In 1908, Ramón Arnaud, a young Mexican military officer with a spotty record, is named governor of the small Pacific island of Clipperton—an isolated atoll originally dubbed "Isle of Passion" by Magellen. He, his young wife,...
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Laura Restrepo, trans. from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Doubleday/Talese, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-51991-5
From Restrepo (Delirium) comes a surprisingly plain-faced novel of parenthood set in the aftermath of the Argentine Dirty War. A journalist and one-time revolutionary, Lorenza is returning to Buenos Aires in the late 1990s with her teenage son,...
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Laura Restrepo, trans. from the Spanish by Carolina De Robertis. Amazon Crossing, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0373-5
Set in and around Bogotá, the haunting latest from Restrepo (Leopard in the Sun) chronicles the exploits of a quintet of upper class childhood friends, now in their 30s, known as the Tutti Fruttis. Each member goes by a laundry list of nicknames,...
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