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Delirio

Laura Restrepo

3.91 · Rating details · 6,433 ratings · 582 reviews

Un hombre regresa a casa después de un corto viaje de negocios y encuentra que su esposa 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 investigar, sólo para descubrir lo poco que sabe sobre las profundas perturbaciones escondidas en el pasado de la muje ...more

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Dec 31, 2020 Woman Reading rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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4.5 ☆
... spinning head isn't the only thing that's discombobulated; above all, it's reality itself, with the ambiguous weight of its double load

Prepare to descend into a vortex of madness. Laura Restrepo's Delirium won the Premio Alfaguara, which is one of the most prestigious Spanish-language literary awards. Knowing that helped me sustain my reading efforts through the first third. Delirium required persistence from me because of its stream of consciousness style, its near absence of linear 4.5 ☆
... spinning head isn't the only thing that's discombobulated; above all, it's reality itself, with the ambiguous weight of its double load

Prepare to descend into a vortex of madness. Laura Restrepo's Delirium won the Premio Alfaguara, which is one of the most prestigious Spanish-language literary awards. Knowing that helped me sustain my reading efforts through the first third. Delirium required persistence from me because of its stream of consciousness style, its near absence of linear time, and even the lack of chapter breaks. Combine that with a narrative told in a mixture of first- and third-person perspectives from four people and Restrepo had conjured the sensation of insanity.

Delirium is the story of Agustina, the much younger and second common-law wife of Aguilar. After a 4-day business trip, Aguilar returned to their home in Bogotá, Colombia. But Agustina wasn't painting their apartment frog green as he had expected. There were messages from an unidentified man to retrieve Agustina from a hotel. Aguilar brought her home and after two weeks, he was no closer to understanding her situation.

[Agustina] scrawls pictures to explain what's wrong with her. She draws rings surrounded by bigger rings, rings that detach themselves from other rings like clusters of anxiety, and she says that they're the cells of her resurrected body reproducing themselves and saving her.

I've loved Agustina so much ... I've protected her from her family, her past, the workings of her own mind... refusing to accept the possibility that just now she might be better off inside than out, that behind the walls of her delirium, Agustina is perfectly happy.

The next first-person POV came from Midas McAlister, who has been Joaco's friend since school and who was once Agustina's lover. He has a distinct voice - brash, blunt, and with a harshly humorous empathy. His narrative suggests that something he has done led to Agustina's current mental disarray.

I'm going to tell you point-blank because you have the right to know, Agustina sweetheart... Will you believe me if I tell you that this disaster started with a simple bet? ... the lowest kind of bet, a dirty joke, if we're going to call things by their true names, a prank that turned bloody.

So this, Agustina princess, is how we came to the end of the farce, because life sets the stage, and we little puppets dance whatever tune they play for us.

The reader gets Agustina's commentary as well, which she delivered in both third- and first-person to reveal her sense of a fragmented self and her challenging childhood.

The problem is that their father is always after Bichi, he had it in for him because he's the youngest, not like Joaco... and my father never hits him or tells him he's done anything wrong, even when they call home from the Boys School to say that he lit a fire in the toolroom or did bad things to the caretaker's dog, and when their father finds out he orders Joaco into the study and then scolds him, but half heartedly, as if he'd like to praise him instead...

Listen Bichi, my pale-skinned little darling, we can't blame my father for liking Joaco better, because after all you and I perform ceremonies that we shouldn't...

And finally, there's the third-person omniscient narrator describing Agustina's maternal grandfather - German immigrant Nicholas Portulinus, who had his own bouts with mental illness.

...the young Nicholas, a talented and precocious piano player, was slow- witted and hopeless when it came to speaking...

But other times [adult] Nicholas would be moved to unleash a torrent of words and string together one sentence after another in bad Spanish, assembling mixed-up and dizzying trains of thought, and then Blanca was afraid and sought shelter beneath a black umbrella of inscrutability from the rain of syllables flooding her soul.

This novel is set in Colombia in the early 1980s, likely 1983. The reader isn't told the year, let alone the decade, but will deduce it from the clues. Yes, this is the Colombia I associate with drug cartels, violence, and danger not with today's desirable lovely things like emeralds and coffee.

...life is hazardous in and of itself and likely to play dirty with us, but also because in a country like this, split from top to bottom by a mountain range, the highways... they're seized every other day by the army, the paramilitaries, or the guerrillas, who kidnap you, kill you, or assault you with grenades, beatings, gunfire, explosives, antipersonnel mines, or the massive detonation of propane tanks.

Delirium was originally published in Spanish in 2004. I only have three years of high school Spanish, so I read the 2007 edition that had been translated into English by Natasha Wimmer. On a lark, I borrowed the ebook in the original Spanish. My Spanish was sufficient to realize that actually Delirio had been written in third person, instead of in the confusing combination of shifting perspectives in English. So yes, we still get into the heads of the four I mentioned, but Midas, for example, is immediately identified in the Spanish but not in the English edition. Of course some other nuances were lost in translation. For instance in my version, Grandfather Portulinus was "mad, completely and utterly insane." Restrepo had written that he was "loco como una puta cabra" or crazy as a f*cking goat, which I find funnier. I would have preferred to have read the original for these reasons but it would have taken me months alongside my Spanish-English dictionary.

But this translation did the job well enough for me to see why Delirio had won such a prestigious prize. The themes (view spoiler) had been seamlessly interwoven. Parallels between the madness of one family and this country under siege were readily apparent. (view spoiler) This isn't a traditional mystery despite the commonplace mentioning of criminal activity, but I had felt the curiosity to investigate as I delved further into Delirium. ...more

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Nov 10, 2014 David rated it it was amazing

Shelves: premio-alfaguara, latin-american-lit, español, colombiano

Wow what a read!

This disturbing book begins with a husband's return home to find his wife Agustina, in a state of delirium. What caused it will be the tale that Laura Restrepo disturbingly tells. Often using first person vernacular, which I admit was a challenge at times to read, tells the uneasy story of Agustina's Colombian family.

Set during the 1980s, when the Medellin drug cartel was reaking havoc in the country, we are introduced to Midas McAlister, an ex-boyfriend of Agustina and a money ...more

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Oct 06, 2013 Jim Fonseca rated it really liked it

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Delirium drops us into the high-end world of modern Bogota, Colombia. These particular folks are families who hang out in fitness centers and travel to the United States. One main character is an unemployed professor who has hooked up with the daughter of a prominent drug family. She is more than he can handle and even if she weren't crazy, he'd be out of his league. (I'm reminded of the modern Italian novel The Natural Disorder of Things: A Novel which has a similar set-up.)

One day she disappea ...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Nan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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It’s a good book but it’s very unclear and difficult to understand because it’s written in this particular way: the author divided the story into little extracts, which at first don’t fit at all! But the more you read, the more you understand the plot. Maybe she did this in order to connect it with the title: “Delirium”. The main character descended from a family with mental disdorders. It describes her story and how her husband struggled to find a cure or at least an answer in a country occupie ...more

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Nov 22, 2007 jeremy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Relatively unknown throughout the English-speaking world, Colombian novelist Laura Restrepo has been widely acclaimed nearly everywhere else. Already the recipient of a number of international literary awards, Restrepo won the prestigious Alfaguara Prize in 2004 for Delirium. Praised by such luminaries as José Saramago, Gabriel García Márquez, and Harold Bloom, Delirium is an enthralling and inconceivably harrowing story, the likes of which bear no comparison to any novel in recent memory. Narr ...more

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Dec 18, 2016 Victoria Kellaway rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I am still unsure why I struggled so much with this book because so much about it seemed destined to make it perfect for me. I live in Bogotá, I identified with many of the observations about Colombian culture and knew many of the landmarks and areas of the city mentioned. I was also interested in the beginning, because this book's premise seemed so intriguing. My interest soon faltered though and I found there was little to draw me back to the novel. The only character who really interested me ...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Tony rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Written in the manner of (and in homage to) Saramago, this book takes 40 or so pages for one to get acclimated to the lack of quotation marks, the shifting of four narrative voices, and the changing tenses. Then, Delirium grips. Stay with it. It can be read on many levels: an allegory of Columbia (or choose your country); a mystery (of sorts); or an examination of the fracturing of the human mind. There are, after all, many things which make us mad. Highly recommended.

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Jun 09, 2018 Anna Baillie-Karas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A tour de force, but starts slowly.

Aguilar tracks his wife Agustina’s descent into madness. We also hear from her former lover Midas the money launderer - a colourful character & in some ways the most honest; & her grandfather. Agustina is wildly unstable so it was hard to get a firm foothold in her sections. Her family is ‘old money’ but lie to each other for the sake of appearances.

Some wonderful, vivid, tragi-comic scenes. You get a real sense of (dysfunctional) home life and wider society ...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Sovotchka rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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"Delirium" does something that I hate - it uses no direct speech at all and instead relies on incorporating spoken words into long sentences that twist and curl and drive you insane. Considering Agustina's madness however, this is a book where it works brilliantly. In fact, by the end of it, Agustina's supporting characters and the reader seem more disturbed than she is.

I have to say that I sometimes felt a bit removed from the characters and the story, and this might just be a cultural thing. ...more

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May 26, 2018 BookeryBliss rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Never in my life has a book challenged my own sanity until I read this book.

First, it’s lack of quotation marks, direct narration and jumbled mix of past and present timelines started to make me feel a little... well.... delirious. I actually considered putting this on my DNF shelf, but then it occurred to me that this sort of madness might’ve been the author’s true intent for the reader; so I kept with it.

Once I got the hang of the writing style, I found myself intrigued with its delirious pl Never in my life has a book challenged my own sanity until I read this book.

First, it’s lack of quotation marks, direct narration and jumbled mix of past and present timelines started to make me feel a little... well.... delirious. I actually considered putting this on my DNF shelf, but then it occurred to me that this sort of madness might’ve been the author’s true intent for the reader; so I kept with it.

Once I got the hang of the writing style, I found myself intrigued with its delirious plot and threads of reality. At one point I even questioned my own predictions and theories of how this book would end and wondered if they were just as delirious as the book itself.

Everything about this book is completely and utterly mad.

Or is it?

The reason for my 4 stars is because I never felt like I connected to any of the characters. And although I think the writing style was deliberate, it’s still a difficult book to follow, requiring a lot of focus and attention in order to even make sense of what you’re reading. Considering the plot and its obvious challenge of understanding as a whole; this book can be proven difficult to some readers.

I will say that it did get easier to follow around the 35% mark though. If you’re struggling to get through this in the beginning, I urge you to push through. I feel that it’s definitely a book worth reading.

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the ending though. On one hand it felt sufficient, but on the other hand it felt like a cliffhanger. So many theories I had about Agustina’s “delirium” that I’ll never have answers to. But then again, that might have been exactly the point of the entire book.

“Delirium” has won the Alfaguara Nobel Prize in 2004 (Spanish Literacy Award) and the Grinzane Cavour Prize (Italian’s Best Foreign Fiction) in 2006.

Sadly though, this book is widely unknown to most of the western world and the English translated version is difficult to find. But if you can manage to get your hands on it I would say it’s worth a read.

One thing is for certain though: You won’t forget this book easily. ...more

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Apr 08, 2018 Remi rated it liked it

I read the book in French but happily understood most of the numerous "Colombianisms" due to a few months lived in Bogota a few years ago.

I must admit that twice before I had tried to read this book but would have never gone further than page 20 due to the lack of sense in the story,structure, punctuation and misunderstandings regarding who the narrator is and when. This time, with a long trip ahead of me I decided to give it another shot, quite stuck since I had no other book with me.

Again, I f ...more

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Dec 28, 2020 Sophie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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It took me a while to read this book because of the way it is written. It would switch from one narrator to another most times it wouldn’t come immediately, who was speaking. I am guessing this was to add to the idea of disorientation.
Agustina, a young woman from a well-off family in Colombia grew up in a household full of dysfunction. There were secrets that she and her younger brother Bichi had to resolve. Her father was incredibly abusive to the younger Carlos Vincente while the older brothe ...more

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May 15, 2019 Kobe Bryant rated it liked it · review of another edition

Just kind of annoying to follow

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Jul 16, 2020 Eva Strange added it · review of another edition

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I have no idea what the point of this book is supposed to be. Or what‘s the point in reading it.

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May 12, 2020 Kirstin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book is intriguing but also disconcerting. Family secrets, gas lighting, mental illness passed down from generation to generation, Colombian drug dealers and more make for a crazy story.

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Apr 12, 2014 Carolina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Every story is like a big cake, everyone gives account of the piece he or she is eating and the only one that can account for the whole thing is the baker.

Why I read this book

My reading of Hispanic authors has gone down in the last years, let alone Colombian authors. Restrepo's book has been acclaimed with several prizes and my family liked it, so I decided to jump back on the horse with this one.

What the book is about

This book takes us through the loo ...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Elise rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

"Delirium" is a beautifully written love story set in Pablo Escobar's drug war-torn Colombia that attempts to solve the mystery of madness. Can it be done? What happened to Aguilar's beautiful wife Augustina during the window of only a few days when he went away on a business trip leaving a sane wife behind but returning only to find a woman who has lost her mind and is almost completely unrecognizable, a shell of her former self? This book presents a puzzle, raising questions about how one defi ...more

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Aug 22, 2015 McKenzie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Delirium was one of the finalists in the Women's World Cup of Literature (http://www.rochester.edu/College/tran...). It examines the idea of insanity through three generations of a family in Bogota, Columbia - the grandfather from Germany who mistakes real people for people of whom he dreams, the aunt and mother who deal with their father's oddities while loving the same cruel man, and the daughter/niece who goes mad because of her family's secrecy and lies. Laura Restrepo weaves together differ ...more

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Sep 02, 2014 Dragana J. rated it really liked it

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Delirium is a story about Aguilar, a man who returns from a weekend away to find his wife (Agustina) in the throes of a severe nervous breakdown. She is unable to communicate with her husband, and so Aguilar, with the help of Agustina's Aunt Sofi, putting the pieces together of his wife's life, in order to determine the causes of her madness. Restrepo's book is divided into short chapters that alternate between these various threads, including the stories of her overbearing father, her effeminat ...more

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Oct 20, 2019 Jennifer Pletcher rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the fictional story of 4 people - Agustina, a woman who has sunk into madness; her husband Aguilar who tries his best to care for her; Midas - a drug traffiker who used to be Agustina's lover; Nicolas - Agustina's grandfather. The author blends their stories together to weave a picture of how Agustina decends into madness.

This was a pretty good book. You have to really pay attention because there are a lot of run on sentences (style) and back and forth between the characters and no chap ...more

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Feb 26, 2009 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The book really throws you into the story with no exposition; four voices revolve in sections and not until a good deal into the book do you figure out who they are and how they are related to each other. It didn't deter me, though I can see how it might for others. It calls for active reading, and I always enjoy that. There's also a lot of commentary through these characters on Colombia and its tumultuous history...it's definitely a bit hard to try to explain the novel, but I liked it because i ...more

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Jun 18, 2018 ხუან როჯასი rated it it was amazing

It was one of the most beautiful and challenging experience of my life. You see, I am not a very good reader, so this book was not easy for me (the way it is written is a bit confusing because is like assembling a puzzle, and some of the parts need to be infered along the way). However, the book shows a passionate romance with little pinches of colombian history (and even sociological views from the author which are priceless) and how lies and appereances can play a huge role within our lifes, d ...more

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Jul 16, 2019 Moira McPartlin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Fabulous. The structure of this novel is different from anything I've read before. It switches narrator, timeline and sometimes shifts point of view within a single paragraph. The story is a mystery. Why did Aguilar's wife, Agustina, end up crazy in a hotel room while he was visiting his son's? What happened in those four days she was alone? The story is teased out through a variety of narratives; Aguilar's search, the musings of a Colombian underworld boss, Agustina's German grandfather's story ...more

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Mar 27, 2016 Calzean rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: author-columbia, culture-colombia, woman-author, dysfunctional-family-life

Written in small bits with four different focuses - Augustina as a child living with a dominating father, her husband Aguilar who is trying to figure out why Augustina has gone mad, a former lover Midas of Augustina who tries to protect Augustina at the same time avoiding the wrath of Pablo Escobar and her grandfather at the time her mother was a child.
There were connections through all the stories, with fear, mental illness, homophobia and breakdowns.
A challenging and confronting story.

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Jan 30, 2016 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A tremendously dense book and hard to get into, but incredibly rewarding once you do. Four narrative voices weaving stories of madness, sex, violence and crime in one family in a sometimes dreamlike, stream of consciousness fashion. Like nothing else I've read recently, compelling and repelling in equal measure. ...more

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Jul 28, 2013 Uzma Aslam Khan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Perhaps the only book I've read about love and mental illness that captures the voices and the chaos convincingly, without glorifying the characters or their pain. Yet it is beautiful, even rhapsodic.
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Apr 01, 2019 Alvaro Cobian rated it it was amazing

Started almost by accident, this book caught my attention from the first pages. Excellently written, the book describes the characters with accurate detail, showing the hints of different layers of the Colombian society, which can be somehow identified in any society.

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Aug 13, 2018 Paul Taylor rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

An engaging study of love, insanity, deception, temptation, violence and class consciousness set in late 20th century Columbia when Pablo Escobar was omnipotent.

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Aug 26, 2020 Preston rated it liked it

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2-1/2 stars

Upon reading the synopsis on the back cover, I was hesitant to start this novel: a man returns from a short business trip to his wife who is suffering some sort of mental breakdown. I did not want to read another story about a crazy woman - it’s misogynistic and over done. But when seeing the author is a woman, I had hope for a new perspective that relies less on stereotypes and more on reality and nuance.

The novel has a non-standard, somewhat non-linear format. Although th *Spoilers*

2-1/2 stars

Upon reading the synopsis on the back cover, I was hesitant to start this novel: a man returns from a short business trip to his wife who is suffering some sort of mental breakdown. I did not want to read another story about a crazy woman - it’s misogynistic and over done. But when seeing the author is a woman, I had hope for a new perspective that relies less on stereotypes and more on reality and nuance.

The novel has a non-standard, somewhat non-linear format. Although the plot is mostly straightforward, this is a difficult read at times due to the lack of punctuation, unmarked shifts between dialogue and narrative forms, and narration that seems to usually come from an unknown voice. I usually really enjoy a non-traditional format, especially when it helps drive the story and character development, however; the format did not seem to support the novel in any way. The sudden breaks read more as scene changes in a movie. It was difficult finding motivation to continue reading once I started. Towards the middle of the novel where the stories of Nicolas Portulinus and Blanca begin to unfold and Aguilar goes on a secret mission to the Washington, the novel is at its best. In these moments the tensions and worries around the precarious mental state of Nicolas are effictlevy transmitted. And Aguilar’s desperate encounters with Anita are full of suspense. I found all Midas McAlister sections tedious and cliche.

Although the most difficult parts of the novel in terms of language and structure were centered on Nicolas, I found them incredibly rewarding. They give a glimpse into the life of Agustina and eventually provide reason for the sibling ceremony between her and Bichi.

Throughout the entire novel, I was waiting for it to end. I hoped for some grand resolution or a shocking turn of events. But it just ends. Agustina is healthy, Aguilar has accepted the unknown knowing that he again is loved and needed by Agustina, and Sofi is just there. All the turbulence, tension, and urgency has disappeared. The ending for me recalled what I felt was the climax of the narrative - Augustina’s dad (Carlos Vicente) being pushed over his traditional bigoted edge by Bichi’s feminine imitation of Agustina resulting in a brutal beat down of Bichi and the subsequent revealing of the secret photos. The photos reveal Carlos Vicente’s affair with her aunt Sofi. In typical “el que dirán” fashion the mother (Eugenia) swiftly sweeps the lies under the rug with more lies. Eugenia clearly already knew of her husband’s affair with her sister, but what’s more important is appearances and that others do not know. Bichi’s attempt at ruining his father in an act of revenge failed. Just as in the ending, events are ignored and life moves on as planned with no regard to the damage done.

Overall, I did not enjoy this novel. I will admit that I probably do not understand the national context of this novel. It took place in Pablo Escobar’s Bogota. Maybe the manner in which Agustina’s mental illness is treated works as a metaphor for national level issues. I think the novel provided interesting views into traditional Latin American family ethos, class relations, and trauma. I did really appreciate the relationship built between the characters and the land. I once heard that in Colombia, especially Bogota, one must dress for all seasons, and this was captured so well throughout the novel as several climates over several towns and geographical markers set the scene. ...more

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Jun 22, 2020 Rhoda rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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2.5 stars

This was my read the world selection for Colombia.

Aguilar returns home after being out of town for four days to find that his wife Agustina is not there and there is a message on his answering machine asking him to pick her up from a hotel. On going to pick her up, Aguilar finds that his wife has had a mental breakdown.

As Aguilar tries to find out the events that led to Agustina being in the hotel and what led her to insanity, he uncovers a family history of mental illness, told from t ...more

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Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. Her first fiction novel, Isle of Passion, is based on historical facts from Clipperton Island.

She is an award winning author. In 1997, she won the "Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" prize at the Guadalajara Book Fair for her novel The Angel of Galilea. In 2002 she won the "Premio Arzobispo San Clemente" Award for her novel Leopard in the Sun. In 2004 she won t ...more

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