La multitud errante (Biblioteca Breve) (Biblioteca Breve (Bogota, Colombia).)

By Restrepo, Laura

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Como puedo yo decirle que nunca la va a encontrar, si ha gastado la vida buscandola? ... Si yo pudiera hablarle sin romperle el corazon se lo repetiria bien claro, para que deje sus desvelos y errancias en pos de una sombra. Le diria, tu Matilde Lina se fue al limbo, donde habitan los que no estan ni vivos ni muertos. Pero seria segar las raices del arbol que los sustenta. Ademas para que, si no habria de creerme.» En medio del trafago de la guerra, los protagonistas de La multitud errante andan siempre a la busqueda: de una tierra prometida, de un destino, del rastro de una mujer desaparecida, de un amor imposible y tambien, por que no, de un amor posible.

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ISBN
978-9-58420-160-7
Publisher
Planeta Colombiana Editorial


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Reviewed on February 1, 2002

A Colombian journalist and novelist, Restrepo is known for her collaborative studies of Colombian violence, journalistic works like La historia de un entusiasmo (The Story of an Enthusiasm, Norma, 1999), and novels rooted in Colombia's contemporary life. In 1997 she won the Mexican Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz prize and the prestigious Prix France Culture for Dulce compania (Sweet Company, Ediciones B, 1997). In this novel, Restrepo uses Colombia's current situation of displaced people as context for telling the story of Siete por Tres's quest for his adoptive mothe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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