Margarita García Robayo nos entrega en este libro sus crónicas de la intimidad. Con una prosa por momentos despiadada y sin concesiones recrea una suerte de novela familiar donde indaga en su niñez y adolescencia, la admiración por su padre, la compleja personalidad de su madre, las fobias y las manías.Los textos de Primera persona conforman una trama conceptual que es la obsesión por la identidad, el sentido de las cosas y el lugar de pertenencia. Quizá, el atractivo se desprende de ese...
From internationally acclaimed author Margarita García Robayo comes Fish Soup , a unique collection comprising two novellas and the book of short stories Worse Things (winner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize). Set on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Waiting for a Hurricane follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emotionally detached from her family, and disillusioned with what the future holds if she remains, she takes ever more drastic steps to...
Lucía and Pablo are Colombian immigrants who’ve built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes towards their homeland and the extent to which it defines their identity. After undergoing fertility treatment, Pablo finds himself excluded from raising their twins, and the new family situation seems to question the very nature of their relationship and of who they believed they were. In search of respite and time to reflect, Lucía takes the kids to her parents’ apartment in...
