Delirium

Laura Restrepo · 2004 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

A Bogota literature professor returns to his hotel to find his wife Agustina gone mad, and he sets out to learn what happened during his absence. Four voices piece together her history, her family's buried secrets and the violence and drug money of the Colombian city around them. The Alfaguara winner belongs to the tradition of Colombian fiction that treats private derangement as public history.

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