A beautiful and unsettling story from the one the finest Latin American authors.
Laura Restrepo is the bestselling author of several prize-winning novels published in over a dozen languages, including Leopard in the Sun, which won the Arzobispo San Clemente Prize, The Angel of Galilea, which won the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize in Mexico and the Prix France Culture in France, and Delirium, which won the 2004 Alfaguara Prize, the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy, and was shortlisted for the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France. She lives in Mexico City.
Delirio is a Colombian story, an expression of everything that
fascinates us about Colombia, including what's terrifyingly
fascinating. Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an
astonishing but absolute mastery. Delirium is one of the finest
novels written in recent memory
*José Saramago*
A book and a half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing
*Washington Post*
A disconcertingly lovely book...sharp, vivid, utterly
persuasive
*New York Times*
Haunting...her unhinged heroine is a true mirror of a damaged and
deranged society
*Guardian*
Delirium has a determined and muscular narrative, with dry humour
and a terrible sense of menace
*Daily Telegraph*
This barrio angel teaches us to see behind the appearance of things
and how to embrace reality with all the senses
*Isabel Allende*
Laura Restrepo's Delirium has an aesthetic distinction worthy of
her precursors Garcia Marquez and Saramago. Like them, her
narrative sense of erotic derangement is elaborately nuanced.
Ultimately she seems to me an authentic descendent of the greatest
New World author and seer of eros, Walt Whitman
*Harold Bloom*
This beautiful and disturbing book haunted me during the days I
read it and long after I put it down. Love, unknowability, loss,
and even various forms of gain elide from one to another of its
passionate, unnerving voices
*Vikram Seth*
A compelling and unnerving novel that offers profound insights into
the deep scars that violence leaves on the individual and
society
*Observer*
In Restrepo's latest (after her prize-winning Leopard in the Sun and The Angel of Galilea), Aguilar, a former literature professor who now sells dog food, returns from a weekend trip to find that his beautiful wife, Agustina, has lost her mind. Agustina is mentally ill, but some unknown momentous event has triggered this latest and most serious lapse into delirium. Four narrators-Aguilar; Agustina; Midas, Agustina's former lover and a money launderer with ties to the drug trade; and Nicolas, Agustina's grandfather-relate stories that seem to have little connection but that gradually come together to reveal more of the mystery surrounding Agustina's mental break and the family's secrets and lies. The story, which takes place in B?gota, Colombia, in the 1980s, is tinged with hints of the charged political atmosphere of the time and explores issues surrounding class and money, including Aguilar's rejection of both. Restrepo was awarded two prizes in Italy for this novel and recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recommended for public and academic libraries.-Sarah Conrad Weisman, Corning Community Coll., NY Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Delirio is a Colombian story, an expression of everything
that fascinates us about Colombia, including what's terrifyingly
fascinating. Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an
astonishing but absolute mastery. Delirium is one of the
finest novels written in recent memory -- Jose Saramago
A book and a half: stunning, dense, complex, mind-blowing *
Washington Post *
A disconcertingly lovely book...sharp, vivid, utterly persuasive *
New York Times *
Haunting...her unhinged heroine is a true mirror of a damaged and
deranged society * Guardian *
Delirium has a determined and muscular narrative, with dry
humour and a terrible sense of menace * Daily Telegraph *
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