Read about another book on the list.Delirium by Laura Restrepo
Restrepo is a Colombian novelist whose fiction reflects her work both as a left-wing activist and as an investigative journalist covering issues of human rights and social inequality. Delirium, which takes place during the Colombia of the turbulent 1990s, is a work of mesmerising power whose starting point is a man's discovery that his beautiful young wife has gone suddenly mad. His attempt to uncover the cause of her madness forces him to delve ever deeper into the past of her well-connected family, uncovering in the process the roots of the collective delirium into which Colombia has fallen. An acutely observed rendering of contemporary Colombia alternates with an almost magical portrayal of the Eden-like country that had so bewitched the wife's immigrant family on arrival from Germany.
--Marshal Zeringue
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