Laura Restrepo
Author
Language
English
Description
Once a month, the refinery workers of the Tropical Oil Company descend upon Tora, a city in the Colombian forest. They journey down from the mountains searching for earthly bliss and hoping to encounter Sayonara, the legendary Indian prostitute who rules their squalid paradise like a queen. Beautiful, exotic, and mysterious, Sayonara, the undisputed barrio angel, captivates whoever crosses her path. Then, one day, she violates the unwritten rules...
3) Delirio
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición en Debolsillo en México.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters. There's Agustina, a beautiful woman from an upper-class family who is caught in the throes of madness; her husband Aguilar, a man passionately in love with his wife and determined to rescue her from insanity; Agustina's former...
4) Los divinos
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
6) Pecado
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
As though taken from Bosch's paintings, several offenders display their crimes in the pages of Sin: a killer, an adulterer, a butcher, an incestuous couple, an indifferent woman, an executioner, and a voyeur, as well as the shadow of the heavy-handed monarch himself. They must all appear before the only judge who can pardon them: the reader. The protagonists of these tales exist independently, but nevertheless make up an entity, like the arcana in...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF DREAMS is an inquisitive study of Hieronymus Bosch’s renowned painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, featuring exclusive interviews from top art critics and experts, as well as legendary author Salman Rushdie.
Author
Language
Español
Description
A mystery within a mystery, the painting "The Garden of Delights" is the most famous and intriguing work by Hieronymus Bosch. Through unique exclusive access granted by the Prado Museum – such as witnessing the processes of X-raying and restoring the painting - the film explores and seeks to unveil all the unanswered questions about the painter himself and the painting, as well as to explain the inspiration that it has had in writers, painters,...