Product Description: Fernando, un escritor colombiano que vive en México, vuelve a su patria de nacimiento para acompañar en sus últimos días a su hermano Darío, enfermo de sida. Darío se ha instalado en la casa familiar. Entre la abundancia de recuerdos sobresalen los dedicados a su padre que, junto a su hermano Darío, es el único miembro de la familia a quien Fernando quiere...read more

Product Description: «No sé muy bien qué sea el amor, pero de lo que sí estoy convencido es de que es algo muy distinto al sexo y a la reproducción, con los que lo confunde mi vecino. El amor es puro; el sexo, entretenido y sano; y la reproducción, criminal...read more

Product Description: Rufino José Cuervo era un hombre insólito: en el país de los doctores aspirantes a la presidencia, ni era doctor ni aspiraba a nada. Aunque no pasó por la universidad y se enseñó solo, llegó a saber lo que nadie de este idioma...read more

Product Description: The rain falls on Casablanca in violent greatness. As if guided by the hand of my lord Satan, water slides down its rooftop breaking tiles, forming lagoons—bubbling in its cursed ire. A single palm tree stands tall at the center of a bright green forecourt while bright white walls frame doors and windows of an earthy brown...read more

It is stranger than fiction and worst than a horror movie. Harder to believe than anything presented by Ripley. Medellin was, not so long ago, a provincial capital in the Colombian Andes, a large town of hard-working, conservative, religious folk. The native returns after years away and simply describes what he sees, in the new language of the street, spoken by the teenage hit men devoted to their mothers and to the Virgin. Description in Spanish: ''La virgen de los sicarios'' es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afecto a Medellin durante el auge del cartel dirigido por Pablo Escobar. Aqui, Vallejo se representa como un anciano homosexual de conservadoras costumbres y de espiritu elitista que se dedica a la gramatica y que regresa a su ciudad natal despues de largos anos de exilio en busca de amantes adolescentes y en espera de la muerte. Con humor caustico describe la ciudad y sus habitantes, nada escapa a su afan desacralizador y a su mirada critica. El dominio del lenguaje oral y callejero le permite recrear certeramente la grotesca y desmesurada violencia y logra conmover al lector y hacerle ver de nuevo la tremenda realidad nacional que muchos quisieran olvidar o pretenden ignorar.

Product Description: A metaphor of death, a secret meeting of ghosts. This novel depicts the end of a household in the heart of a crumbling country. Description in Spanish: Metafora de la Muerte, conciliabulo de espectros y fantasmas, ''El desbarrancadero'' cuenta el fin de una casa en medio de un pais que se desmorona...read more

A Colombian whose brother manages an apartment in Queens gets work on a documentary film being made by a group of filmmakers with whose views he does not agree, in a novel that explores race relations, the poor, religion, and other topics.

Takes a sceptical look at the history, doctrines, and practices of the Catholic Church, arguing that Jesus never lived, that the popes have led dissolute lives, and that the Church is responsible for an unbroken string of human rights abuses.

Product Description: La puta de Babilonia, como llamaban los albigenses a la Iglesia de Roma segun la expresion del Apocalipsis, saca a la luz el voluminoso sumario de los crimenes perpetrados en nombre de Cristo por su Iglesia desde el ano 323 en que una de las muchas sectas cristianas de entonces, la que se llamaba a si misma catolica, o sea universal, se monto al carro del triunfo del emperador Constantino, un genocida, y de la victima que dice que era se convirtio en victimaria...read more

Product Description: “I spent my childhood and my youth attending mass and reading novels. And I heard and read so many that I lost my faith in God, which doesn’t matter much where literature is concerned… Today, I don’t step foot inside a church, not even as a tourist and you can’t get me to read a novel even if you threaten me with bodily harm...read more

Product Description: This second part of Vallejo’s five autobiographical novels, is a drastic exercise against every socially established norm. The novel recreates the life of an antihero from a low class in Medellín in the Sixties. A narrator who describes himself as old and bitter recounts a vital trip through the forbidden: the rough gay and drug-filled lifestyles of those times...read more

Recounts the story of a country that crumbles, taking the dream of paradise, in a satire of the democracy that exists in a web of illusions, lies, and treasons, of souls in pain, dead people that vote, and flocks of parrots that tell eternal truths.

Recounts the story of a country that crumbles, taking the dream of paradise, in a satire of the democracy that exists in a web of illusions, lies, and treasons, of souls in pain, dead people that vote, and flocks of parrots that tell eternal truths.

Product Description: This novel, published originally in 1985, emphasizes the autobiographical reflections that are common in the works of Vallejo. His ominous relationship with Catholicism, his thoughts about the creative process and Literature, his visions about his country's culture, the relationship with his father, and the Latin American boom, are some of the subjects where he leaves those explosive thoughts that have been fundamental for the development of his literary career...read more

Drawing on a decade of research, as well as personal interviews and archival material, the author of La virgen de los sicarios and La ramba paralela presents an in-depth biography of the turbulent and contradictory life of poet Barba Jacob. (Biography)

Product Description: Autobiography and novel, memoirs and reflections, the past and the present, reality and hallucination come together in this volume of short stories by the author of La Virgen de los Sicarios. Written against all odds, against any moral judgment, against all norms, El río del tiempo breaks any scheme of the literary genre...read more

Desperate to restore his memories, a dead man embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife, journeying from Spain to Colombia and Mexico, in a novel in which the past and present collide. (General Fiction)