La Multitud Errante / Un cuento de los desposeídos

"When the level of writing reaches where Laura Restrepo took it, you have to take your hat off." -- José Saramago

How can I tell him he will never find her, if he has spent his life searching for her? With that phrase of mythical resonances, this intense love story unfolds amidst the harshness of forced displacement. An enigmatic character called Siete por Tres arrives at a pilgrim hostel asking for a woman he lost in the turmoil of war. There he is attended by a foreign volunteer, whose interest in the man grows beyond simple solidarity. In the narrow triangle that is created, the anxiety of finding the other merges with the search for the promised land. And for love: the impossible and, why not, also the possible.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me."

In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are continuously searching for a promised land, a destiny, the face of a woman who has disappeared -- searching for an impossible love and, conversely, for a love that is possible.

A way station for refugees from violence is the setting for an intense love triangle in which an uprooted and wandering people lead the reader to experience the collective drama of forced relocation. A Tale of the Dispossessed speaks to us about the inexorable law that has led man, expelled from paradise since the days of Adam through to modern times, in his search for a way back home.

Author: Laura Restrepo
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 12/10/2024
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.58h x 5.05w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9798890983039
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | Colombia